Religious Symbolism?
 

I don't have a problem with it until people start putting meanings on the symbols that are clearly wrong. I hate seeing "Satanists" wearing ankhs, pentacles and inverted crosses. I hate Wiccans wearing well... anything, since their whole religion is bullshit and they have no claim to any of the symbols I see them wearing.

I don't wear any religious symbols whatsoever since I have no interest in religion whatsoever. :)

I think it's tacky to wear religious symbols you don't believe in, but I don't actually care very much.

Please choose a scene (preferably NOT this one) and stay there. You simultaneously declare that you are both scene, goth and emo. My poseur senses are tingling...

I love religious symbols as fashion accessories! Seriously, if I could get away with it I would dress as the Pope. What a hat! Or at least as a friar. Stop traffic I would! Heehee.

I'd skip on the hat, and just drive the car.

Pope-mobile GOGOGO!

Oh and random question: I wanted to get one of those slick black shirts with the white collar that the priests wear, is that "allowed" or what? Could I take out the white insert/collar thingie and be safe?

I like the way they look, but I won't wear a symbol of a religion I don't believe in.

Sure! That was quite the rage during the late 60's as the "Nehru jacket":

http://www.bondbros.ie/_images/_eveningWear/even3.jpg

I like that pic, but that's more a jacket, I was just looking for the dress shirt type thing, to wear with my black trench coat.

I like to wear the symbol "the all-seeing eye of God"...

I was going to go to my school's own clothes day dressed as a nun, but opted against it when I remembered that being a Catholic school, they'd go nuts.

...so just get a black dress shirt?

I wear a pentacle ring but I am actually pagan (no, not wiccan before anyone throws a shitfit ) so for me it has a meaning and I never take it off. I've never liked crosses to be honest, and also do not care for wearing religious symbols whose meanings I have no belief in.

Iron Cross!

Um. You can definitely be all of those at once.
I could be considered goth, scene, and emo if you're talking about music and fashion.

I believe you are only a poser when you're not being yourself. If poisonedblueeyes, who annoys me, is being themselves, then they aren't a poser, simple as.

Okay, fair point but it could also mean that she has no real understanding of either subculture, so she calls herself all of them because really she knows she isn't any of them. Which I think would make her a poser, but then again I'm just randomly hypothesising. I don't know this girl well enough to make a judgement about her so I suppose I should apologise. She is still annoying as hell though.

I like wearing a charm bracelet with Dionysus's dolphins and a necklace with a picture of two people's arm intertwing while holding wine glasses. Another one of my favorite necklaces has the outline of a hummingbird, which is an obscure symbol of Hermes.

Don't worry about it. If you like, then wear it. I mean, a cross can have different meanings to different cultures. It jus depends who sees it.

Out of all the religious imagery I have seen, I really enjoy looking at the Seed of Life / Flower of Life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_...e#Seed_of_Life

There is just something really visually appealing about it to me.

I wear an Ankh for aesthetics.

Once last year someone asked me why I was wearing a cross and I said "it's an ankh" and she said "what? an oink? OMG HAHAHAHAHA. AN OINK". I saw her wearing one last week.

Were you even reading the conversation at all? I want a priest-collar dress shirt, not just a regular dress shirt.

Religious symbolism without religious meaning is dumb.