Is this page on symbols accurate?

[mobo85]

@t-bonham@scc.net

Hmm. Wonder how the Bible would fare if they analyzed it using that criteria.

They have an essay explaining that the sins in the Bible are not the same as sins in movies, as the Bible sins are written out in text. Reading something is a lot different than seeing it actually happen on screen. I guess they have a point, but it is still somewhat hypocritical.

[tomndebb]

Loons.

As has already been soundly demonstrated, one cannot accept anything on that page as accurate. There are a tiny few correct sentences, but they probably were just typos the author could not recognize to correct.

Among the more egregious claims not yet fully debunked:

HEXAGRAM: The hexagram has uncondemnable meaning to the Jews – it was adopted by them as the Star of David circa their captivity by the Babylonians. The hexagram was also used by the Egyptians as an unholy icon long before the Jews claimed it for holy representation.

Yet symbols.com makes no mention of any Egyptian connection and attributes its origin directly to the Jews. CAPALERT just made that up.

[HEXAGRAM cont’d] It is also the symbol behind putting a “hex” on someone. “Evil spirits gather in force at the summons of the person working the ‘hex’.”

Utterly wrong. To “hex” someone is to act the part of a witch (hexe in the German dialect that gave rise to Pennsylvania Dutch and so entered American English vocabulary. (The “hex” signs on Pennsylvania barns are decorative, not an effort to ward of evil spirits (which would be the opposite of CAPALERT’s claim, anyway) and are called “hex” signs because they employ six-figured designs that are relatively easy to make using a compass (as any beginning geometry student knows) or a line, a chalk, and a nail.)

The Peace Symbol has been addressed by Cecil, himself in What is the origin of the peace symbol?.

They have one or two corrupted facts about the Tau Cross which, again, is not supported by symbols.com.

STAR AND CRESCENT [OF ISLAM]: With God mockingly placed as the moon (the goddess of love, Dianna), Satan assumes the role of the star, which is a mockery of Jesus as the …bright and morning star…:

Utter bullshit.
There is a faint glimmer of a factoid in the association of the moon with Diana. However, while it is a tenet of faith among one strain of Christian zealots that Islam is “really” a moon-worshipping cult, the reality is that the crescent and moon did not enter Muslim symbology until the capture of Constantinople in 1453, after which the Ottoman Turks adopted the (pre-existing) flag of Constantinople–which did carry the crescent moon since before the time that Constantine renamed Byzantium–as their own. Whatever connection the symbol may have had with Diana (prior to the Christian era) was long since subsumed a millennium and a half prior to its adoption by one Muslim group as a political (not religious) flag.