People need to realize and wake up to the fact that religion's ,political ideologies like socialism and identity politics as a short few examples are controlling mechanism's and distractions preventing people walking a powerful inward journey of self discovery which is what being a human being truly is.
St Peter's square at the Vatican - a huge pagan sun wheel. Note the 2nd pagan wheel in the center (and an ancient symbol of Baal in the next post)then an obelisk-phallic symbol. The obelisk was shipped Heliopolis to Rome by the emperor Caligular. "In the middle of St. Peter’s Square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, which represents the Sun god Ra of Egypt. It was placed in the middle of a giant Sun wheel, which is lined up with the solar solstices and equinoxes. The pagans believe that their Sun god is conceived on 3/21, the Spring Equinox. You can see this played out annually at the Vatican, when the rising Sun causes the shadow of the Egyptian obelisk (which is a phallic symbol representing Nimrod, the Sun god) to fall onto the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica (symbolizing the womb of the moon goddess Semiramus), representing their annual sexual union." http://romancatholicbeliefs.org/the...are-worshipers-of-the-babylon-sun-god-tammuz/
Symbols throughout history are a dime a dozen, -- and kind of meaningless, It's like modern music...artists have just put their own spin on something that existed in a previous generation, Kind of like the history and interpretation of the bible/religion -- it's highly ambiguous, and questionable, People have been debating and attempting to verifying it since way back when, Everything is just a story and tale for entertainment and enchantment and allure,
Maybe they don`t.The inward journey eventually brings you back to normal life(at least from my experience).Whether that journey was useful or not is also questionable and will only shed at the threshold.
Symbolism has been used extensively in advertising and in television affecting our minds subconsciously and on multi levels. https://recombinant.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/layers-of-meaning-the-use-of-symbolism-in-advertising/ The symbols aren't really where this thread is heading they're just highlighting the sun deity worshiping connections with Catholicism at this stage.
Funny that reading all of this, you are not discussing about the common infiltrating feature : S ;? A !! T %µ A ¨^ N $£ I ùµ SM that main goal is to infiltrate - and discredit - anything that gets people too close to its own creator.
I don't mind if you care to expand. This topic is still in it's early stages I'm hoping to get way deeper...