Ahead of the city’s annual winter festival, organizers have installed a number of red, illuminated, inverted crosses throughout Hobart, Tasmania, and Christians there are expressing their outrage over the occult symbol.
Described as “art installations,” the inverted crosses have many Christian leaders fearful that it is welcoming dark forces into the city. Mark Brown, director of the Australian Christian Lobby for Tasmania, said the displays are highly offensive:
“The cross is a very important symbol [and] in the words of Jesus, the devil only comes to kill, steal, and to destroy. My question is: ‘Is that something Hobartians really want?’
“We’re dealing with spiritual forces here. I don’t think those involved in this event … would disagree with the spiritual realm being a real thing.”
The celebration, called “Dark Mofo,” is a typical pagan “winter solstice” ritual with many modern additions, none of which are meant to glorify the Lord. It is organized by the Museum of Old and New Art and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The Tourism Tasmania description, which calls the event a celebration of the dark, states:
“It is a heady fortnight of festivities, and highlights for travellers often include the annual City of Hobart Dark Mofo Winter Feast on Hobart's waterside docks, the ogoh-ogoh parade and burning on the solstice night, and the annual Nude Solstice Swim, where hundreds of brave souls plunge into the River Derwent at sunrise to welcome back the return of the light after the longest night.”
Although sometimes referred to as “the Cross of Saint Peter”—in remembrance of his being hung upside down on a cross following his crucifixion—the inverted cross is worn by many Satanists as a sign of mockery and rejection of Jesus. Those who wear it, or display it, are professing an outright rejection of not only the Gospel, but the Church, as well.
(Photo Credit: Dark Mofo)
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