Will the Logos, Signs, and Trademarks of our times, be misinterpreted by future archaeologists?

Question

Wondering about archaeological digs in the future, say 2000 years from now.

If future archaeologists found symbols of McDonald's everywhere, and since the symbols are so prevalent all over the world, would they think it was a WORLD RELIGION?

Would future archaeologists see company names like, "Mercury" or find police badges with the star (pentagram) on them and determine that we still worshipped pagan gods, 2000 years after we supposedly stopped? Would the police badge be seen as a petition for protection from a pagan god?

I do understand there are neo-pagans (whose spirituality I respect) but most people of Western civilization identify with the Christian religion (for the record, I do NOT).

Would they be in a heated debate over whether Christianity completely wiped out the "old gods", or would the overwhelming symbolism that is still in existence in our culture, be seen as a sign of the survival of their worship with more prevalence than it actually is?

Answer 1

I seem to recall reading a book similar to this one about 6 years ago or so.  The civilization in the book regarded oru cars as a form of animal worship (mustang, jaguar, etc...) and the competing religions of Mcdonalds (the large M) and Wal-Mart (the large W, or inverted M)

 

I wish I could remember the name of the book, if anyone here knows, post it here