why do people consider the penticle an evil symbol?
437740
People associate it with witchcraft, which they (incorrectly) associate with devil worship.  Therefore they assume its a santanic symbol, even though it isn't.
802210
That's exactly it.  It gives them a false sense of power.  Calling upon the Creator of the universe's Son to damn what you damn is really what they're doing.  That's why it's called taking His name in vein.  Because you're using His name to damn something that's (most likely) not damned.  Make sense?
328663
It doesn't matter, they are just to symbolize the body and blood of christ and that you are taking them within yourself.  When you take them this way, you are going beyond the material identity of the object so the identity of the object matters not.
614141
In a world in which sin is no longer evil, but an option or something that can bring someone's reputation up, it's hard for one to find a christian guy or girl. Our modern day society has inflicted upon us the messages of disrespect, vandalism, to humiliate one's appearance or clothing (regardless of their health or financial conditions). In which claiming a color, and taking one's life for those who oppose it, and brings glory and respect to one by his/her fellow gangmembers, it's hard to find someone who will have a good relationship with you. \n\nThe Apostol Paul describes how the world would be in the final days of history. (2 Timothy 3:1-5) Yet there is hope. MATTHEW 7:7,8 says:"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." Pray. That's all I can say. Pray.
756199
I don't know why people are responding to this on the iambic pentameter etc front. Are you not asking a question about the multiple negatives? If so, I would respond that people still use this (it isn't unknown for people never to use a purely singular negative form), wasn't he doing it for effect, don't nobody do it no more?
968112
People fear what they don't understand .. So they call it evil ... \n\nOr make excuses and say it was gods idea.. (I really love that one )  Human's are really stupid when they don't understand what is going on around them ..
588681
The reversed cross, also known as the cross of St. Peter, has also been used as an emblem of Satanism, although more often by non-satanists than believers. Historically, it has been a symbol of humility, a symbol of Martyred St. Peter's refusal to be crucified in the manner of Christ, preferring to be hung upside down.\n\nToday, the symbol of an upturned cross may symbolize an opposition to Christian dogma, a concept borrowed from Christian writers who mistook the emblem of Peter for an anti-Christian symbol- a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy!\n\nThe inverted cross is also an esoteric symbol of reversal, and is related to the 12th key of the tarot, the hanged man.
577291
the cross has it origins in pagan history.  The cross was not used by the early Christians but become common place after the pagans and Christians were united under Constantine.  Christ was not killed on a cross anyway.  It was a straight pole without any appendages.  let me ask you, if your best friend was killed with a knife, would you hang a knife around your neck?  And would that remind you of his death or his great life?  yes, his death.  All the pictures of Christ show him on the "cross" died, not the resurrected Christ.  I think it is Satan's trick used to offend God, whose son was killed indirectly by Satan's thinking that he had foiled God's plan.  Indeed we should destroy these satanic pagan symbols.  Besides, they have no effect.  I have seen a lot of criminals and drug dealers wearing them.  What's the deal with that?
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I see a problem.  You seem to be interested in things that the average person doesn't want to hear about.  And you seem to be inspired by some unknown force.  Welcome to the human race.\n\nThere is a mystical significance to shapes; physics states that.  Numbers and letters are shapes.  When you look at a hurricane on the whether forecast you'll notice it creates 6 over and over as in 666.  Perhaps the answer is in the word live, which when spelled backwards creates the word evil.  In the past tense it creates the word devil.  It could be that anything that lives is evil.  \n\nSo, you are of a different kind.  You see things that others can't because you look.  That's a difference right there; most people don't want to look, hear, or think, for fear of what they may find.  That is the state of society, it fears lossing it sins; which can be seen from the outside not from within it.  Elevations!\n\nEnjoy your analytical mind, sometimes it causes the deaf, dumb and blind to see.  However, don't hold anything true until you see it at least in your mind with the proper deducement.
299931
The Fifth Element, in most pagan traditions, is the Divine spirit.  It is represented within the pentacle as the single upper point.  This is the posative representation of Spirit overseeing the other elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth.  With the single point downward, it is the representation of the negative with the Spirit being overseen by the other four.\n\nA side note:  Posative does not mean "Good" all the time, while negative does not mean "evil" all the time.  The energies pf the elements are neutral, even the representations are more neutral, it is the person using them that makes it good or bad.
918725
Ah ...the soft-shoe routine you can get from people who believe in the "inerrant" Bible - when a text clearly states something so awful that it must be re-re-reinterpreted.\n\nSo .. a word from our sponsor:\nIsiah 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do all these things."\n\nAnd now let's hear the various (laughable) renditions of what "evil" means "in this context," or "the actual Hebrew means something totally different." - obviously it couldn't just mean "evil," .... could it? \n\nThere is no one answer to your question. Current theology, in a vain attempt at sidestepping the mystical trend that produced the citation above, holds that God did NOT do what He says He did, or that it's a "mystery to be revealed in the end to us all."
559290
i think there a sign of evil becus of my religion--hve u ever heard of the mark of the beast? i think tht it is just the begin of wht man wants...i wouldn't get one if i was u tho u never really kno......but thts my opinion......~1~real
646327
the 5 points of the pentacle stand for the 5 elements - earth, air, fire, water and spirit. the spirit always points up, it is the most important. the circle around them is to protect them from evil.\n\nthere is nothing evil about the pentacle, as christians and muslims conquered the world they attempted to remove symbols of old religion, they did so by telling people that those symbols were those of evil. this occured not only to the pentacle but also the ankh of isis and many other symbols.\n\nThey cannot stand for the devil in ancient times, since the devil was first mentioned in the bible, and the bible did not exist in ancient times.  Recent people who has become anti-christian and claim to worship the devil have twisted and perverted the symbol and turned it upside down and claimed it as thier own.
1111651
Well, everything has its yin and yang side, and many believe this symbol represents balance, peace or harmony. Others believe that it means there is a little bad in the good, and a little good in the bad (which would mean there is no absolute good or evil). \n\nhttp://cana.userworld.com/cana_yinyang.html\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_yang
682530
definitely. its to discourage people from being evil.
78752
The pentagram is an ancient symbol which is currently used in witchcraft and other pagan religions.  Each of the five points symbolizes a force (earth, air, fire, water, spirit) the center symbolizing the combination of those five forces.
1125504
I don't. I think the devil is a symbol for evil and bad behavior, and not a physical being.