Copied from my FA journal.
Shiiiit. i thought i heard some stupid things before, but this is just fucking ridiculous.
Gaia Interactive, the parent company of Gaiaonline.com and its forums, released their Monthly Collectible yesterday afternoon - the Grunny, the Gothic Veil and the Vampire Hunter Gear (default pose is a hat).
i looked at the pose and spoke with another person smart in occultist studies who said "there just may be a problem."
One of the poses is a pentagram. Another a crucifix.
Being Catholic, i knew better and did some research. Posted a thread in the general forum about how the pentagram was used by all sorts of religions and groups, and that this particular usage was purely for horror movie refereneces.
Granted, a crucifix is also used, but keep in mind i'm also a Castlevania fan who owns Aria AND Dawn of Sorrow. In the latter, you draw pentacles. Julius throws a cruciform boomerang and blasts out his aura in a cross form. Don't fucking tell me that the cross isn't being used for magical purposes.
But the backlash was EMBARRASSING. There was this one kid who said he was a Catholic but said in the same breath "I'm Catholic, not Christian." Dude ... i wanted to beat this kid over the head with a stack of rosaries blessed by the late John Paul II. i know Wiccans who were sorely embarrassed by people OF THEIR OWN RELIGION who found this offensive because it's not their precious gold pentagram. And the fact that some idiots thought that the upside form was an insult to Wicca.
Pardon the second image, but picture if you will:
From the viewpoint of the avatar, the pentagram is in fact in "correct" form, even though one Wiccan friend of mine said both forms were perfectly fine and that some idiots were confusing the Gaian version of the pentagram with the Sigil of Baphomet.
So many Christians who don't know their history.
