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This is just a little off topic, but refers to satanistic symbols: Can one wear/tattoo them, and not know what they mean?
Well, I did...a year before I was saved. I was attending the church where I was eventually saved, and one day dressed our adorable little daughter in a red fuzzy sweatshirt with a moon, star and heart on it. These designs were applicaid (sp?) on and looked very cute. Anyway, a pastor's wife stopped me in the hallway, and very lovingly asked me if I knew what these symbols meant. I said I had no idea they meant anything, but only looked cute on the shirt.
Then, without any judgement or condemnation in her heart at all, she told me about the moon and star, and how they were connected to satanists, and islam, etc. She said she personally stayed away from any of these symbols because of what they meant.
I was astonished! I had never heard that these symbols meant this! It took me awhile to deeply consider what she had told me, and I didn't immediately get rid of everything that had these images on them. But this lesson stayed with me, and slowly I went through my daughter's and son's baby things looking carefully for anything that would send the wrong message to another person.
It was a tough lesson because I was so clueless...and yet I'm grateful for the love and non-judgemental attitude on the part of our pastor's wife. It was the beginning to my education that the world sees these symbols a lot differently than do Christians.

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