(11-20-2010, 03:40 AM)Pickle Wrote: I find it funny that the inverted star T-shirts were given by a Christian organization.
How do you know the t-shirt was given by a Christian organization? (Did I miss something?) I heard mention of only 1 person wearing such a shirt, and the most obvious explanation is that he's simply a metalhead. I've never heard of any Christians approving of inverted pentagrams. They usually consider any pentagrams, inverted or not, 'satanic.'
I would take any verbiage on the t-shirt with a grain of salt. There are many, many, many heavy metal bands that use inverted pentagrams, mostly because they think it looks cool. The words printed on the shirt are probably lyrics from one of their songs or an album title. Or maybe they are referring to 'Lucifer' but it's usually just a gimmick to sell their records. Seriously, it's so common in heavy metal that it's almost a uniform at metal shows, to see such shirts. And metalheads wear those shirts to work, to the grocery store, whatever. As someone who has kept up with the music industry to a fair degree, I really don't think the shirt is significant at all. I mean nada. Zip. Zilch.
The other elements might have significance, although I disagree with the conclusions as to what that significance is, but the shirt? If metal t-shirts were that significant, then that would be giving a lot of undue credit to average people who happen to like certain genres of music. In most cases, the people wearing those shirts have no clue what the pentagram (inverted or not) even means at all. They're just wearing the shirt because they like the band, plain and simple.
I'm reminded of the time my husband and I swam with dolphins with a group of Rebirthers. The dolphins were triggering initiatory experiences for all of us. The 10-year-old daughter of one of the Rebirthers told us her mom was giving her a hard time because she didn't want to get in the water. The child said, "Mom said it's because I have issues and don't want to confront them, but that's not it. The water's just too cold."
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