Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: djohnson@ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Peace Sign Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 02:44:03 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: CSE Dept., UC San Diego Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Whether or not the peace sign was once a satanic symbol should be of little concern. Of more importance is its present meaning. When I was small, it was generally accepted by the people I knew that the peace sign was a satanic symbol at the worst, and at best a tool of communism (which was close to the same thing). Looking back, I sense that many people had great misgivings about the peace movement, whose leaders were most likely anti-American, and therefore, anti-everything-good. So naturally, when friends told them that they heard from someone else that this odd symbol was really a broken cross, why this made everything clear. The fact that this symbol was worn by every doped-up hippie you met (every single one of whom were obviously involved in satanism) only firmed their convictions. I'm pretty sure that no matter what symbol was used by the peace movement, people would have found fault with it (or complained that it was a good symbol converted to evil purposes). Even the environment flag (not seen much nowdays) was seen by many as a corruption of old glory. -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.