I remember some commedian (but not exactly who) that compared the felings of Jesus looking down at the world and seeing crosses with the reaction one would have expected if one went up to Jackie O the seventies and told hor how much they loved JFK and proved it by showing her a little gold riffle round their neck.
The crusifixion was a brutal, horrific form of torture and execution. The crusifix was not the original symbol of Christ. In the first generations of x-tianity the symbl was the fish (because the letters spelling the greek word for FISH :
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Ichthys (Greek: ἰχθύς; also transliterated and latinized as ichthys, icthus, ichthus or ikhthus; ichthus, spelled: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma), is the Ancient and Classical Greek word for "fish." In English it refers to a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish, used by early Christians as a secret symbol and is now known colloquially as the "Jesus fish." Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) is an acronym or backronym of "Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Saviour (Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ)."
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It was only later x-tians that adopted the cross. I always assumed it was a bit of a persecution thing - early x-tians wanting to moan about how tough they had it.
For the richest organisation on the planet, they sure have a big chip on their shoulders about poverty.