Mormons and the cross - Historian learns early Mormons did not eschew the cross as a symbol.
Here's a tease:
It's no accident that Mormon steeples, temples and necks are free of Christian crosses.
LDS leaders long have said the cross, so ubiquitous among traditional Christians, symbolizes Jesus' death, while Mormons worship the risen Christ. Some Latter-day Saints go even farther, condemning the cross as some kind of pagan or Satanic symbol.
Now a historian at California State University in Sacramento claims in a just-completed master's thesis that Mormon aversion to the cross is a relatively recent development in LDS history, prompted in part by anti-Catholic sentiments.
"It first started at the grass-roots level around the turn of the 20th century," Michael Reed argues in the thesis, "The Development of the LDS Church's Attitude Toward the Cross."
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