Why are the stars on the Republican elephant upside down?

Leavethekidsalone.com ^ | 11/30/01 | jimbaugh

[Jimbaugh]

Why are the stars on the Republican elephant upside down?
	As part of a graphics job I was redrawing the Republican Elephant in postscipt so I could use it in a high resolution design job that I was doing. I noticed that the stars are upside down. When I looked at the Democrat version of this logo I found that the stars are pointed up. I did a little research and found the use of the five pointed star upside down has satanic uses. I have searched and searched but I can't find out who designed the Republican logo. I have a feeling some neo-pagan, democratic designed this logo and is laughing everytime he sees this logo on a Republican advertisement. I may be wrong but I think the Republicans have been had again.

[exmoor]

Why are the stars on the Republican elephant upside down?..My guess is that some jealous JACKASS did it or should I say DON...KEY...?

[ALinArleta]

After watching the current Republican Congress! The stars are just like them. Some leaning to the Right and some leaning to the left.

[Jimbaugh]

bump ! !

[Jimbaugh]

Bump

[PistolPaknMama]

It was stolen by the pagans.

Kinda like the KKK stole the Confederate Battle Flag and turned it into an "evil" symbol when in fact the St. Andrews Cross is a beloved Christian symbol. I'll take your word on the Eastern Star. I've never heard that before. Thanks!

[Jimbaugh]

bump

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

A pentagram is also drawn flat. It is a place where there is supposed to be protection from demons as the demon can't cross over the line into the pentagram. So it's also an old sign for protection and safety, hung on many old barns and houses to keep evil spirits OUT. Then again, when the RCC was designing an image for the *devil*, it used the Greek Pan with his cloven feet. A puck. Not evil, mischievous and musical. A prankster. No fun in THEIR guy though. The church morphed Pan and the Great Horned god, the Celtic Cernunnos, who was the symbol for sex and fertility, into their version of what the devil looks like. No fun, no sex, and it began the dark ages of no music, fear, no laughter or joy, no art, and the worst kind of sexual repression, leading to sadism and madness. It gave rise the the Witches Hammer. It took them years to finish the design, and years to complete the brainwashing. And wallah, the supreme evil, *stan*...the horned man bringing with the image, many deaths.
Until the 15th century, there weren't no sucha thang as an image of the devil. As a matter of fact, it was actually a sin for them to have done this, totally against the Commandments. But what did they care about sin then? By then, they had broken them all.

[RippleFire]

Why are the stars on the Republican elephant upside down?

They're not upside down. They're just pining for the fijords!

[prntscrn]

true, except you’ve completely side-stepped the entire question: the issue isn’t that stars (aka pentacles) are being used, it is that the stars are in-fact upside-down, therefore contradicting natural expectation, which is why we’re having this discussion. Just as a Christian would identify an upside-down cross as being anti-Christian, upside-down stars have a long history of significance in the same manner.

The question is, what is the significance of the decision to flip the stars? What was the author attempting to communicate?

[prntscrn]

terra meant earthly, as in terrain, which wouldn’t make much sense in the context that was intended in the phrase “novus ordo saeculorum.” The word ‘saeculorum’ was used in describing a length of time attached to a worldly process, a word encompassing both time and space in relation to a specific existence. Saeculorum in use is a word that has always been much closer to the word “world” in breadth and scope than the word “age” which is a more limited in reference to time. In fact, saeculum is the earlier root of the word saecularis, from whence we get the modern word secular, which means worldly (in a neutral sense), as opposed to heavenly.

And in response to the conspiracy theorists:

Yes, indeed, America was meant to be the New World Order, and we would spread the torch of liberty across the globe, not by force or coercion, but by awareness of self-evident truths. The founding fathers were by definition illuminists, and they lived during a time what we refer to as the age of enlightenment. These were all good things and necessary for the further promotion of mankind.

[kjones715]

it actually translates directly to “new orderof the ages” not new world order. just sayin.