Don’t you cringe when women, usually in their mid-20s, express such righteous indignation at the Supreme Court could taking away a right they have had for 50, count ‘em, 50 years. I suppose anything twice as old as you seems really old. But using their dates and logic, slave-holding was a right people in the United States had for hundreds and hundreds of years. An entire nation’s peace was shattered to overturn that right.
Even though Roe v Wade has been overturned, the thirst for babies’’ blood appears unquenchable. The Pro-Abortion side is redoubling their efforts to keep, in the words of President Clinton, abortion safe, legal, and rare. I’m not sure about the rare part. Every indignation is that as American surgical abortions decline in number, the number of chemical ones goes up correspondingly.
There can be no peace between the Pro-Life and the pro-death camps, and maybe it’s time to claim a popular symbol for the Pro-Life side. How about the peace sign?
Encyclopedia Britannica (online), as of 2023 says though the peace sign is sometimes maligned as anti-Christian, satanic, or Nazi, it has a clear known history. It was designed by Gerald Holtom for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958. The vertical line in the center represents the flag semaphore signal for the letter D, and the downward lines on either side represent the semaphore signal for the letter N. “N” and “D”, for nuclear disarmament, enclosed in a circle. Holtom also described the symbol as representing despair, with the central lines forming a human with its hands questioning at its sides against the backdrop of a white Earth (Petruzzello, M.. “Where Did the Peace Sign Come From?.” Encyclopedia Britannica, June 14, 2017. https://www.britannica.com/story/where-did-the-peace-sign-come-from.).
I have a note in my “Cross-Crucifixion” file that looks to be pre-1988. It says that the peace symbol was originally an anti-Christian, pagan, satanic symbol used by ancient persecutors. It was called Nero’s Cross. The broken side arms standing for the brutal extermination methods applied to Christians. The Quora Assistant Bot says on July 10: “There is no historical connection between the peace sign and any symbol associated with the Roman emperor Nero. The claim that the peace sign is derived from “Nero’s Cross” is a modern myth without factual basis.” In my search of the above file I also found this clipping on the origins of the Swastika from Christian News, April 4, 1988[i]. From my limited Internet search it seems spot on.
I have a 1991 published book, Knock on Wood which admits the peace symbol is combining the flag signal for the letters N and D. But says this is an ancient symbol of an upside down man which means the death of man. “Put that in a circle, which represents the unborn child, and you have a symbol that says dead children” (Knock on Wood, 147).
I know nothing about the author Carole Poole. I don’t know if she is legit, leftwing, or is a real authority on these things. I point this out because I don’t want to malign something based on hearsay. Look up what happened to Procter and Gamble in the early 80s. This was before the internet, before social media, and still this big conglomerate was regularly having to issue denials that the symbol for their company had satanic origins. They were reduced to physically mailing out proof to even small churches like mine. They actually won civil cases.
So without besmirching Nero’s reputation or the enemies of Christianity, we could start using the Peace Symbol for the death of the unborn. It would testify that there can be no peace between Pro-Life and pro-death people. Between those who assert they have a right to do what Natural Law itself testifies is wrong.
