Is it really true that the peace sign is an upside down broken cross?

Question

because i just heard that and its horrid

Answer 1

No it isn't ,that's just someones silly imagination

Answer 2

That is the stupidest ****ing question I've seen yet on this site.

Answer 3

It was V for victory .

Answer 4

i'm pretty sure that's not true. i heard the same thing 40 yrs ago when we were all hippies. we thought someone probably an older person made that up so people would think hippies were bad and not to be trusted.

Answer 5

It could be. Much like Pentagram in reverse means the devil, or swastika means n**i but actually it is Buddhist symbol and icon of peace.  Much like a cross is a symbol of crucifixion, an agonizing death, but it is a also a symbol of help for a dying man. No matter what no one should be afraid by mere symbols.

Answer 6

A peace sign surprise is not a broken cross its not the foot print of Americas chicken a peace sign is the combined signal flag letter ND standing for nuclear disarmament

Answer 7

No, the Peace Sign stems from the Nuclear Disarmenant demonstrations in England in the early 60"s.

It was designed by a person who was using the semaphore signs (  the old fashioned flag signals ) for N and D in an inverted postion.

Answer 8

This forked symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was subsequently adopted as an international emblem for the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain for the April 4 march planned by DAC from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England[4]. The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the first official CND version (preceded by a ceramic pin version that had straight lines, but was short lived) the spokes curved out to be wider at the edge of the circle which was white on black.

Answer 9

symbolism is in the superstitious mind as they perceive it to be- to me an upside-down cross is a symbol of the hypocrisies in most religion that can place evil into a mere object instead of in human behavior, and a peace sign just symbolizes the era it came to represent; that whole free-love hippie thang, you know?

I have pentagrams with halos and wings...

Answer 10

No, it isn't true.  

This ugly argument goes way, way back - but I will only go back as far as the Viet Nam war.

An unjust, unholy war that was conducted as a result of fear and misguided patriotism.  America had fought in the second world war, quite correctly, but that mentality of 'saving the world for democracy' lingered on and on and on and on -

The peace symbol was vilified during the Viet Nam war as a symbol of anti-Christian and anti- American sympathies.  The draft was hot, people were dying and the young and old all decided that we had to get out of that d**n war - which, by the war was never declared a war; it was called a conflict - and many began to wear or show the peace sign.

The peace sign meant that our hearts are broken, you have lied to us and you continue to kill our children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and all of their children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers for no reason.

This current use of the peace sign, and the negative connotations that war mongers like to associate it with, is the same old thing.

We are involved in an unjust and unholy war.  It is wrong.  People are dying because America has an 'interest'.

The American people have an 'interest' too, and it has nothing at all to do with war.

Peace.