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I looked at them and if someone wants to see something satanic than I guess one will see it.
There are many styles of crucifixes that do not have INRI on them. It’s the artist’s prerogative.
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There are many styles of crucifixes that do not have INRI on them. It’s the artist’s prerogative.
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Which is also very true! However, what is the intent in these designs? Why the excessive adoration of this staff-object in the background? Why the rejection of the INRI sign? (Which is true, many a practical crucifix don’t have the INRI sign on it and are still good for use for devotion). However, what’s the intent of the excessive artistic design? Unless it was meant to be abstract and just look cool, I’m pretty confident it has a meaning. So, in total…what’s the meaning? Most likely either a sick joke or someone who actually wants to do evil, I suppose. There are very few other explanations possible for such a distortion of something that’s pretty hard to distort.
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And thank you for the advice! I’m young but not tech savvy so it proves a challenge to me 
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Sometimes designs don’t have meaning; it’s just art, but if I had designed something like that crucifix, the suns might emphasis the wounds of Christ. I don’t understand what you mean by “excessive adoration” of the staff. I don’t actually see a staff. And the INRI would be completely distorted in molded plastic of that size. What I do see is that someone somewhere didn’t like that the crucifix wasn’t an exact replica and started looking for things to demonize it. Just for comparison, I know someone who opted not to get married at a particular parish with fleur-de-lis designs because she thought they were goats heads.
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Also very true, very important to look at this from both sides. However, it always seemed like an awful lot of trouble to go through for designs behind Christ on the cross. I see what you’re saying though, the cross of San Damiano, favored by St. Francis, was considered sacriligious for some time. However, I believe it’s best to be weary when approaching religious objects sold or handed out in public, just because I have come across experiences of sacramentals being cursed or vexed by Santeria priests (yep, that made me a believer). That stuff works…but, of course, doesn’t stand a chance against Christ. Studying the East Indie occult groups and being exposed to them has made me cautious of things like this…which, until substantial proof subsides, can be considered not-so-safe for devotional use. As for you friend, take her to New Orleans and I’m sure she’ll be terrified of all the “goat heads!” Haha
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Yeah gotta be careful with things like the Siete Pontencias (Seven African Powers) and Justo Juez images that take the guise of Roman Catholic Saints…I’m actually close friends with a couple of Cubans who grew up with Santeria, but they just haven’t quite gotten that Santeria is not true Catholicism. Hopefully they’ll see the light!
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