Comment by anothercairn on 11/03/2025 at 02:59 UTC

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I am a Christian. I love Jesus. If a hate group decided to use the cross as their symbol, and then they did a genocide that killed ELEVEN MILLION PEOPLE, the cross would no longer be a symbol of love. It would be the way that those genocidal people recognized each other. I could never use it again.

Things change. Sucks that the swastika had a beautiful meaning before it was taken over by evil, but it was, and that matters.

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Comment by Viriliter_Age at 11/03/2025 at 05:56 UTC

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Well newsflash, what you call Nazi swastika is actually Christian cross.

Nazis used to call it Hakenkreuz, which means hooked cross. They never called the symbol as Swastika. Western translators did it because they didn't want cross to be associated with Nazis, so they besmirched a Hindu/ Buddhist/ Jain symbol.

Hope you'll give up on cross now. Sucks that the cross had a beautiful meaning before it was taken over by evil, but it was, and that matters.