>>106635157Guess that makes sense. Still feels off, though.
The optics are good for a symbol, but the symbol itself is kinda nonsensical. Imagine Jesus got executed by dismemberment (that one thing where they tied a horse to one of each of your limbs then made the horses run in opposite directions), no matter how much it represents Jesus' willingness to sacrifice himself, it's not a good icon by itself. You would not have the "jesus dismemberment effigy" on your house, or a church, for that matter.
Same thing if he was beheaded. Forgive the anachronism, but imagine if jesus got beheaded with a guillotine (i'm aware they beheaded people with axes on special podiums at the time). You would not have the guillotine effigy as an icon. It might have made sense at the time to have the cross as a christian icon, but as time passed I can't grasp why it REMAINED a symbol.
Say jesus reincarnates today, and gets shot in the head by a fed. Is the new religious icon a glock? I doubt it.
>>106635395That's the intention of all public executions, to display the heavy hand of the state and its ruler. All (historic) public executions were cruel and extensive, that was the whole point. Seeing the heretic get burned alive and hearing the screams of agony, the traitor dismembered and his limbs scattered on the floor, the criminal hanged and neck cracked or turning blue if the fall didn't kill them instantly, the public show of the beheaded's head, and yes, the days of agony of the crucified, it was always a show of force and display of suffering, so yes, it was a generic execution, as all executions were.
