ercedo wrote today at 12:01 AM
One of the pretty young girls were wearing a cross pendant on her neck. I asked her if she is Christian. She seems to feel perplexed by my remark, catching her cross and saying it is just a decoration. Here in East Asia, cross is just a decoration.
We tend to believe that hakencreutz is probably associated with Nazis, but in Asian countries this sign, though the direction of arrow is not clockwise, represents temples in general. It is illogical to seek for the meaning in symbols and signs as a whole. For believers of God, God is almighty so it's natural that they believe in God. On the other hands, secular people who think God is a representation of many virtues are also believing in God probably in a slightly different manner from believers.
I am a completely secular person. But I think we ought to believe the value of virtues like love, justice, etc. Some believe in superhuman incarnations usually believe in God. In the same manner some who think Jesus was just the assassinated sage are believing in God as long as they think Jesus was assassinated and sage. If we thought Jesus was just the executed criminal, we are definitely not believing in God though.