Your arguments are against the strawmen that you've set up. Since you have failed to address what I'm actually saying, yes, we can move on.
I've addressed you Sophia and your argument. You've failed to offer anything but "Because I said so" to your argument so without anything to back up your claim other than "Because I said so" then I'm afraid you have no proof.
You stated that , "Also, I've seen it used in several Protestant churches, including Lutheran and Methodist churches."
No doubt. Lutherans and Methodists are as close to Catholicism as any so-called Protestant church could hope to be. I have no doubt that a Lutheran church may be beguiled into using these symbols.
However, just because some may use these symbols doesn't mean that confirms your belief in what these symbols stand for or mean.
I saw John Lennon on the Dick Cavet show once sporting an Army shirt but I had no delusions that he was in the military. So just because someone uses a symbol doesn't confirm your interpretation of where that symbol originated or what that symbol means.
Just the other day I saw a huge Baptist church in Riverside, California sporting a Freemason/Jehovah Witness crown and leaning cross symbol on their church. While they may not know the origins of such symbols I myself had no delusions as to it origin.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
"The Cross and Crown may be said to be confined almost exclusively to the historical degrees in Masonry as exemplified in the various orders of knighthood of York and Scottish rites. In Gaul we find the cross to have been a solar symbol when it had equal arms and angles; to the Phoenicians it was an instrument of sacrifice to their God, Baal; and to the Egyptians, the crux ansata was his symbol of eternal life."'44 [Emphasis in the original]
In The Masonic Report we find more about this emblem:
"Question: What does Masonry's emblem of the 'Cross and Crown' actually symbolize?
"Answer: The 'Cross' of Freemasonry is a philosophical cross, according to Albert Pike, 'Morals and Dogma,' p. 771. It is philosophical in the sense that it represents the generating fecundating principle by the perpendicular shaft, 350 MASONIC AND OCCULT SYMBOLS ILLUSTRATED and the matrix or womb of nature, the female producing principle by the horizontal shaft. The philosophy of the Masonic cross is totally phallic. "The 'Crown' of this Masonic emblems is also phallic, it being the first emanation of the Cabalistic Sephiroth...."4'
A former Mason also explains:
"The other York Rite jewelry you may see is the Templar symbol....It is a large Maltese cross with a circle in the center. Inside the circle is a red Latin cross within a crown. Around the arms of the cross is the Commandery motto, 'In Hoc Signo Vinces.' (In this sign, conquer!)
"Although this may seem harmless enough, the motto is originally attributed to the emperor Constantine, who used it in conjunction with a supposedly
heavenly vision to begin the subversion and politicization of Biblical Christianity into the false, apostate Alexandrian cult....
"A similar shell game is played with the word 'sign.'... The sign Constantine referred to was NOT a Christian cross, but a kind of 'X' which had both Christian and pagan associations. In modern magic, it is the sign of the slain and risen Egyptian god, Osiris (another version of the 'slain and risen' Hiram Abif).
-Again Masonry has downgraded Jesus and replaced Him with its own 'christ'." [Emphasis in the original]
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Two other groups (both with Masonic connections) use the cross and crown.
Charles Taze Russell was a Mason who started the Jehovah Witnesses. (The image below this is one of Russell's grave stones). He used the red cross and other distinctive features of the Knights Templar logo.'"
He also used the Masonic symbol of the winged sun-disk with snakes and he is "buried in a pyramid with masonic symbols on its capstone."