Satanists are Dumbasses!

My friend Becky is pretty cool. She defers from normalcy just enough to make her interesting but has enough of a grip on sanity to keep her out of the looney bin(... most of the times ;-p)

 so when she started sharing links on my official brain killer Facebook from this site I said to myself that its worth checking out. Now I have another mini obsession and avenue to waste countless hours of my life because Cracked.com is the shiznit! and yes I duly note that using the word shiznit has just diminished my own cool points (i'm now only kinda cool, I can live with that)

While I ploughed through this labyrinth of random and probably useless but oh so engaging information (i spent FIVE HOURS on this bloody site on Sunday!!!) I stumbled over something that almost crippled me with extreme mirth! For those of you too lazy to click the link or who will not open the link in a new tab and there leave my blog and be trapped in the abyss of cracked.com never to return again its a list of 8 historical symbols that mean the opposite of what you think. Today boys and girls I would like yo discuss with you #7.... the inverted cross.

oh emm gee!

To satanists, heavy metal rockers and confused suburban angst filled teenagers everywhere its a huge middle finger to Christianity.Kind of their version of playing Evil Knievel with the wrath of God. To Catholics it's the Cross of St Peter and an all round symbol of I am not worthy of Your Greatness Oh Lord!

Let me start from the beginning.... This is St Peter

otherwise known as the disciple Simon Peter, one of the "fishers of men", otherwise known as the dude who denied knowing Jesus three times before the rooster crowed. I'll wait until those memories of Sunday school during lent come back to you and you go Oooooh that guy! ......... Right! Let's move on.

So other than totally scorning the Son of God in his time of trial Peter was a really great guy. In Matthew 16:16 he declares Christ accurately as the Son of the Living God which of course scores him some Scooby Snacks and he is named Peter by Christ who calls him the "rock upon which I shall build my church". probably why he's widely considered to be the first actual ...... (add suspense music dun, dun dun) Pope!

And now the plot thickens....

You see there are often pictures of the Pope with upside down crosses. 

and you think ummmm creepy! , the pope is buying himself a one way ticket to H-E double hockey sticks! 

But a little research, as I said before shows a different story.

Back to St Peter... where was I? Oh now I remember, he was a cool dude, he walked on water, he kicked butt for Jesus (or at least he cut off a dude's ear for Him)  and he was the only disciple brave enough to actually go into the Jesus's tomb when He was resurrected. (Luke 24- Yup ppl you'll have to read your bible for this post, go dust it off!)

And when this super cool dude died, he was crucified, just like Jesus. Well not JUST like Jesus. You see Peter requested to be crucified upside down! Why you ask? Because he did not think that he was worthy to die the same death that Jesus did! He was being,,, humble!!!!!!

Now don't get me wrong, I know that there are conspiracy theories out there about the church  and a whole lot of other stuff. I don't know if its true or not but I choose not to live in fear because, well God said not to! And it's not like I'm going to tattoo a huge upside down cross on my face like this genius...

Over time symbols take on the connotation of what you imply with them but its still great to see that  every knee shall bow is very much a living concept and the fools that hate my God so much are perpetually doing what we all knew declaring themselves UNWORTHY!!!