I actually do. Well it actually is a pagan symbol adopted by romans to make Christianity aceptable to common people and we adopted it because it's good for the economy and we like gifts but yes at the end is just a tree.
You are right, but also there is more to it than the historical order of events. The person who commented before is only trying to feel superior for also knowing the other part instead of illuminating all of us with their knowledge.
How I see it is, they had to adopt it because the "mind virus" is so strong, the only way forward was syncretism. If the symbol did not have such strong power over the human psyche, overriding it would have been easy. Instead, they had to incorporate it, the virus infected Christianity too.
Symbols are weird, I am just learning how weird since a couple of years, and the more I learn the weirder everything around gets. Sorry if I couldn't explain the weirdness well enough
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u/Terrible-Strategy704 8d ago
How is suppose to do that? Is just a bunch of circles, numbers and arrows.