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Originally Posted by martinguerre
I think you overestimate my reaction. I respectually requested that Livia, and others reading the thread, to not wear the cross if it wasn't personally significant. I don't think that make me assume anything. I'm perfectly willing to leave it to people's consciences whether or not it's significant to them.
But as i pointed out...it's a symbol of death. If you don't believe in the ressurection, that's all it is. And i don't know about you, but that's a little creepy in my book.
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First of all I think you mean 'respectfully'? Last I checked
'respectually' wasen't in the dictionary.
Secondly, a large part of my entire point was the fact that any symbol, be it a cross or otherwise, inherently means nothing. Any meaning attributed to a symbol is the result of a personal, religious, or cultural choice that only applies to someone who buys into it.
So a cross isn't a "symbol of death". It's a symbol, and if you think that it, without belief in the resurrection, is a symbol of death that's /your/ belief. That meaning dosen't apply to anyone else unless they too have that same belief.