(Opinion)
Christianity is a religion founded on love and peace. The selfless acts of Christianity and the message of Love are not being heard over the voices of the Zealots and the Fanatics who are taking center stage leading inquisitions of faith.
The elevation of the cross, metaphorically took the “pagan” symbol of the cross as a mandala, with its four quadrants representing the four seasons, with the center focal point if a human figure was transposed upon it being the reproductive organs, symbolizing that the message can be transferred only by birthright.
To the elevation of Christ on the Cross, which puts the focus higher on the figure of a human being now at the height of the throat and of the ears. This elevation of the focal point to now one of a message that can be transferred via communication, in speaking and hearing and in seeing.
The message of Love and Peace can be spoken and heard and accepted by all who open their hearts. And indeed in a message of Love and Tolerance, there is a place in the world for people who choose to believe differently. Acceptance is Love.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.