Tennessee mother outraged by school bus brake light that looks like a pentagram

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A parent in Tennessee is insisting a school’s bus lights resemble a Pentagram.

“Anyone who fears a God, if not God and Jesus Christ, should be outraged. If you can’t put a cross on there, you can’t put a pentagram on it,” she exclaimed.

The school district has not yet responded to her complaints.

It would seem her anger is rooted in the pentagram’s use in Wicca and Satanism.

What this woman seems not to know, is the pentagram is a Christian symbol: The pentagram was used in ancient times as a Christian symbol for the five senses, or of the five wounds of Christ.

Wiccan Jo Applewhite was shown a photo of the school bus and thinks the parent may be overreacting.

“We believe in God, we believe in Jesus, but we don’t call him God. Find out what it really means before you start getting riled up and all worked up about something.”

Wiccans have their own controversy surrounding the pentagram. They’re often confused with Satanists.

The pentagram has been used throughout recorded history in various religions and cultures.

According to SymbolDictionary.net: “A ‘point down’ pentacle is nothing new- nor is it necessarily Satanic when it appears as such. Historical depictions of the pentagram were as likely to be points down as point up. A distinction between one or the other was rarely made by the ancients. Even today, one must not assume a point down pentagram is Satanic, as it is just likely to be Masonic, Wiccan, or simply upside-down.”

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2 comments

  • Alison Lesley
    6:02 pm

    A pentagram isn’t a Wiccan symbol, a pentaCLE is (with one point straight up). the gram has one point straight down, generally accepted meaning as the inversion of humanity (the points represent a person turned upside down).

    Though most symbols have cross religious meaning. Even an inverted cross was originally a Christian symbol for not being worthy of Jesus (this is intended as a sign of humility, not condemnation).

    Also, Wiccan is a religion made up in the 50s.

    Also, everything else in this story is also absurd. The woman who raised this complaint is clearly an idiot.

  • Alison Lesley
    6:02 pm

    REMEMBER MOST LEADERS AND WASHINGTON MONUMENTS ARE SANTANIC SO WHAT IS THERE TO EXPECT FROM ANY THING NOW IN THIS WORLD WE LIVE ,WE LIVE IN EGYPT! WE ARE IN THE END TIME , READ YOUR WORD THE BIBLE SEE MANY SIGNS AROUND US. GOD HAS ALLOWED PEOPLE TO LIVE THOUSANDS OF YEAR IN THIER OWN WILL AND GOVERN THEMSELVES BUT NOT FOR LONG JESUS IS COMING TO ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM,AND I DO NOT MEAN THE ANTICHRIST REIGN! I MEAN THE TRUE GOD JESUS. BEST TO CALL ON JESUS TO GET YOU READY. SYMBOLS ARE ALL OVER LOOK AT WHERE YOUR DOLLAR BILL. SANTANIC PEOPLE KNEW WHAT THEY WHERE DOING. LORD BLESS YOU ALL.

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