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To: Oztrich Boy
Are you denying the evidence of your lying eyes?

Just in case somebody takes your comment too seriously...

The swastika was used as a religious symbol for "well being" in some far eastern religions long before the Nazis hijacked it.

81 posted on 04/20/2007 6:11:36 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: RGSpincich

Some religious traditions prohibit the depiction of people in their temples — so they’re decorated with geometric patterns. The “swastika,” all right angles, is a fairly obvious one.

In Buddhism and Hinduism, the arms of the “swastika” imply motion, rotation, evoking the “wheel of life.” What goes around, simply put, comes around. Karma is a harsh taskmaster.

All of this symbolism was in place centuries before Hitler made up his syncretistic notion of “Aryan” paganism.


84 posted on 04/20/2007 6:23:45 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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