Part 1 of WTF? Why did I grow up believing this.

This is the first in a long series of posts where I analyze my current state of mind by diving into my childhood memories and trying to remember, and then quickly forget, some of the crazy things I was taught to believe while attending Roswell Street Baptist Church's sunday school as a child. My parents are not really to blame even though they just seemed to quietly allow me to brainwashed (no hard feelings though).

Part 1- "Kids, peace signs are satanic. They are broken down crosses."

I was probably picking my nose at age 6 when I first heard these little jewel. And since I became a rational human being I have learned that many Christians hate the idea of peace all together because it delays the prophetic visions set forth in the "Left Behind" series. I have done some research and I have found a few sites that push this peace sign=satan idea and they are clearly run by crazy people. I will bold the sections that strike me as slap-ass crazy.

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The signal "actually began as a symbol of Satanic benediction during the rituals.'' This sign has been used by Yasser Arafat, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill, and Stewart Meacham, Co-Chairman of Reds' New Mobilisation Committee." Churchill said that the sign stood for victory but remember that Churchill was one of the insider "elite" and a Mason. He most likely knew the evil significance of this symbol but tried to give it a facelift.

"The Leftists, radicals, and Satanists who have popularised that sign...know its ancient significance very well. In fact, that 'V' sign is now used extensively by such Communist organisations as the Young Socialist Alliance, Vets for Peace in Vietnam, and the Students for a Democratic Society."

There is also a sexual connotation associated with Vulcan and Tubal Cain. Former Mason, Bill Schnoebelen, explains:

"For Masons who wish to conceal their membership from non-Masons, but still advertise it to their Lodge brothers, there is a special pin (or tie tack) they can wear. It looks like an upside down golf club with two balls near the top....Many people assume the person is a golfing enthusiast, but it is actually a visual Masonic pun.

Wow.

Now from Wikipedia:

This forked symbol was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally, its use was confined to supporters of that organization. It was later generalised to become an icon of the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain. He had been commissioned by the CND to design a symbol for use at an Easter march to Canterbury Cathedral in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England.
The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the original design the lines widened at the edge of the circle.[1]

Gerald Holtom, the guy who made the sign, rejected that it was meant to be satanic. The evidence of the "satanic" peace sign is based off of connecting crazy dots that make no logical sense whatsoever.


Look next time for my belief as a child that children were rounded up in mass and sacrificed to Satan around Halloween.