That would be an understatement! A regular pentagram represents the Golden Ratio/Section/Number in THREE different ways!
This fact, combined with the fact that the pentagram is often linked to some evil things, made me ponder about symbols in general. The crucial question is this: Can a symbol on its own be good or evil?
The answer is: No, it can't. Everything depends on the person who is looking at a particular symbol. Everything lies in one's mind.
For example a Christian cross to me is a symbol of devotion to the Father God and of being a good person in general (especially the way Jesus taught it). This is why I constantly wear a necklace with a Christian cross myself. However there are some people who over-interpret this symbol and say it's some kind of evil only because some priests did some bad things. This is ridiculous! A religion (any religion) can't be blamed for the fact that people, including priests (or their equivalents), are sinners. Obviously people, including priests (or their equivalents), who committed crimes should be punished, but we can't blame a whole religion because of them!
But it works the other way too! Some religious people treat some symbols as some kind of evil only because these symbols were used by atheists who did some evil things. Yes, a pentagram is used by some evil people, but not everyone fascinated by a pentagram is evil. For some people a pentagram is (or used to be) a symbol of balance or a symbol of protection. Recently I got fascinated by a regular pentagram myself, but only because from a mathematical point of view it is simply fascinating that one figure represents the Golden Ratio/Section/Number in THREE different ways!
I will end my post with a meme that contains two symbols that can be understood only by people who watched the movie Matrix. It proves that a symbol is meaningless without a context.
PS. Personally I am very curious about the true “meaning” of God that we will be able to really comprehend only after our death. But I believe that our death should be natural. Obviously doctors should help patients to ease as much pain as possible through medicaments, but a purposeful euthanasia is just like a suicide (taking an easy way out). By the way, any forced euthanasia (against one's will) is simply a murder. A quasi-euthanasia, for example carried out by stopping to feed a disabled person AND preventing the family from taking the person out of the hospital, is also a murder! Such a person is slowly starving to death, so it's actually quite a gruesome murder!
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