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How did the practice/custom/tradition of placing a cross over graves start? Who started it? Does it predate organized religion?
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Lol...smh!
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How did the practice/custom/tradition of placing a cross over graves start? Who started it? Does it predate organized religion?
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superstition/religion
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This purely conjecture on my part, being that the United States is a Christian nation and most of the people here are Christians,
it probably something to do with the recognizing your faith. -
So ? could know who the faithful are at the end
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Its probably one of those things where the living bury the dead and want to show their ? that the deceased was a believer.
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how high are you right now?
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Christianity didn't exist until a time period so it came from when crazy Christian believers started it. It does not predate organized religion as people didn't used to bury bodies. They burned them.
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The cross is a symbol of the reality of the resurrection. And all who die in Christ will be made alive when He comes again. Thus the cross is a symbol of that hope. Hallelujah!
Now the question is are you ready for the LORD to come again? Because He is about to BOW down the heavens! Hallelujah!
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Thats the shape we make with outstretched arms.
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Isn't it just suppose to represent jesus?
I think the cross was just another method of torture before that.
