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[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:

> First of all, I own and love the book.
> Second, I barely censor anything for my own kids.
> Third, I find all instances of Christ on a cross disgusting,......

Geoff:

Speaking as an evangelical Christian, although I wouldn't quite use 
your terminology, I would agree that I dislike a crucifix which is an 
opinion also held by a majority of Christians other than Catholics and 
high Anglicans because it presents the wrong view of our faith.

Christians believe that Jesus was God in human form and that, after 
the crucifixion, he rose from the grave to demonstrate his power over 
death and to offer salvation to men and women.

Hence, the crucifix marks an event now over and done with, which is why 
most churches (and those Christians who choose to wear one) display 
a plain cross without any adornment or representation of Christ.