Ever really think about the cross?

Jesus was executed as a criminal. It just happens that the way criminals were executed at that time in that culture was by crucifixion.

Can you imagine people running around with little nooses on chains around there necks? Or a church decorated with guillotines?

It seems really weird, absurd even. But really it would be the same thing, if he had been executed in a different way.

Any other culture/religious group venerate an instrument of criminal execution?