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Originally Posted by jay santos
Wedding ring for one.
So we say, we put symbols on our temples (angel Moroni, sunstone, etc), we put symbols on our churches (steeples), we use symbols as a sacrament, we use symbols in the temple as signs and tokens, we put symbols on the garments we wear everyday, we use symbols in our popular culture with CTR rings and such, we discuss the importance of symbols frequently over the pulpit, but yet we condemn the cross just because it's a symbol and outward symbols are an incorrect tradition? Sorry, not buying it.
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Don't buy it.
I believe we reject it, because we wish to be different and because to some extent, many make a mockery of the cross by making it garish and gaudy.
So to distance ourselves from a misused external symbol.
Our worship is full of intangible symbols, but we do not have many "objects" of symbols. We have "process" symbols but not commonplace "objects".
It is good not to be too ecumenical. I don't wish to be like the rest in this regard.