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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Throughout history, Christian symbols and quotations from the Bible have been manipulated and abused by many including the occult, hate groups; even the news media.
Any Grail symbols or legends could well have been publicly denied and privately changed into Christian propaganda.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Christian and Buddhist symbols of evil, Studies in the History of Religions XXVII, E.
Churches were built and artistic traditions adapted to the portrayal of the new Christian saints and symbols.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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These were the inheritors of Paracelsus and the other alchemists and Christian medicine doctors, using pagan symbols and methods with a veil of Christian symbolism.
Christian symbols are not superstitious signs or good luck charms.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Combining agrarian symbols and Christian symbols, twelve dishes are served which represent the twelve disciples and the cycles of the moon.
Symbols that the Celts associated with the Earth and with fertility, therefore, are unlikely to be found in Christian art.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Fundamentalist Christian churches use traditional Jewish symbols to lure vulnerable Jews.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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The window symbols are used to remind us of church doctrines, the mission of the church and as a guide in our Christian life.
He was a Christian Universalist, but also a Universalist in the broader meaning of seeing all names and symbols of the divine as pointing to one holy reality.
There is no problem for Christians to adopt pre-Christian symbols as long as the new Christian significance is clear and the faith remains uncontaminated.
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