The Swastika and Ankh, two religious symbols turn bad

mathinspiration said:

Ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol of life. It looks like a cross where a lot of historians and non believers say is where Christians get the idea of crosses and Jesus dying on it . People who never heard of the Roman Empire or Julius Caesar or Crucification or how Romans did it.

The swastika sign (卐) – a symbol of Buddhism or Nazism?



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Yet both were misused. The Nazis turned the Swastika into a symbol of hate and war and racism forming their own caste systems.
The Romans turn the Egyptian symbol of life into death.

How is that possible?

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mathinspiration said:

Ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol of life. It looks like a cross where a lot of historians and non believers say is where Christians get the idea of crosses and Jesus dying on it . People who never heard of the Roman Empire or Julius Caesar or Crucification or how Romans did it.
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Albion said:

There's probably more to be said about this, but the cross was definitely not the ankh simply revived.

We know for a fact that the Romans used several versions of crosses and did so because of shape of the human body and their idea of putting criminals on display, among other considerations. Some of them didn't really look much like ankhs at all.

And as for the swastika, the German version also is different in appearance from the Buddhist one in several ways. But people usually don't notice the difference. Incidentally, you also said that the swastika in the Nazi version was a symbol of hate and war. It wasn't. It was a symbol of life and power among other things, but we associate it with hate and war because that's what the Nazi regime that we identify with the swastika is remembered by us for having done. If Hitler had preferred the four pointed star or the all-seeing eye, we would now think of them as representing hate and war.

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The swastika sign (卐) – a symbol of Buddhism or Nazism?



Ankh - Wikipedia


Yet both were misused. The Nazis turned the Swastika into a symbol of hate and war and racism forming their own caste systems.
The Romans turn the Egyptian symbol of life into death.

How is that possible?

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JackRT said:

It is my understanding that the swastika was an ancient North American Indian symbol of the sun. There is a town in Ontario Canada by that name as well. Over the years the residents have stubbornly resisted all attempts to change the name.

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JackRT said:

It is my understanding that the swastika was an ancient North American Indian symbol of the sun. There is a town in Ontario Canada by that name as well. Over the years the residents have stubbornly resisted all attempts to change the name.

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BlackSabbath said:

Weren't the Nazi's against books and art to a degree?

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