The Pentagram & the Pachyderm

[Ian David]

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The Pentagram & the Pachyderm

The elephant/flag symbol on the left is the official icon of the GOP/Republican party. The red and white bars and three white stars on a field of blue are supposed to represent the American flag. But there’s a problem. The stars are inverted, and instead of pointing up they point down. In that sense, it is the representation of an upside-down American flag.



There’s no criminal penalty because it’s considered free speech. Still, it’s technically illegal to represent an American flag with the stars upside down.

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It seems pretty peculiar that the same party that every year tries to ram through a constitutional amendment to criminalize flag-burning and other desecrations, are themselves openly disrespecting the American flag in at least three different ways at once, and in countless millions of mailers, websites, and bumper stickers. But when is the last time you saw an American burning the American flag? Since there’s no law criminalizing political hypocrisy, Republicans might do better pushing through a constitutional amendment against it, thereby killing two birds with one stone.

The interesting thing about a star is how easily it can be turned into a satanic pentagram. When it’s pointing up it’s a star and a symbol for good. When it’s pointing down it’s a pentagram, a sign of evil.

"A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting upwards, is a symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces because it overturns the proper order of things and demonstrates the triumph of matter over spirit. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns, a sign execrated by initiates." Levi Eliphas Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual. (1855)

More:
http://isbushantichrist.blogspot.com/2008/01/pentagram-pachyderm.html

[iamahaingttta]

1. Makes perfect sense.

Because, after all, the Republican party is the party of evil and sinister forces.

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. From what I can determine....

they were changed "after" the 2000 election.:shrug: It does make one wonder.


www.wearableartnow.com

[Greyskye]

3. Upside-down pentagram also used by the Masons

This symbol is one of the most prominent emblems within Freemasonry. The five-pointed star is found on most Masonic memorabilia.

It kind of freaked me out the first time my old band got hired for a gig at a Masonic hall. Upside pentagrams all over the place! :rofl:

Google image search: http://www.google.com/images?q=masonic+pentagram&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS226US226

[Mojorabbit]

4. It is also the symbol

of some traditions in the wiccan religion depicting the student's progress in the tradition and ends up right side up on completion of the training. Not evil.

[AndyTiedye]

5. The Problem is Easily Solved

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6. I take exception to one

element in that piece--a "star" is STILL a pentagram, or pentacle, if you wish, though it usually implies the use of magic for good, not evil. The word, pentagram, is loaded because it's one that appeals only to Xians, and in fact, the pentacle and the beliefs that accompany it are older than the Xian faith. Belief in the powers of magic isn't related in ANY way to the Xian faith, unless you read only Xian produced literature, and in older texts, the concept of a "devil" or "evil one" is simply a way of distinguishing one extreme of belief to another. Until the Xians came along, when suddenly the pentagram has very nasty connotations, and most of them are related to the devil of the Xian faith. Unfortunately for those of us who still believe in the freedom of religion, the far-wrong has made their system of deities into the accepted norm, and it would take a whole shitload of deconstruction to get back the symbols they have ruined.