<P> The Protestant Reformation spurred a revival of iconoclasm, a wave of rejecting sacred images, which in some localities (such as England) included polemics against using the cross in worship . For example, during the 16th century, a minority of theologians in the Anglican and Reformed traditions Nicholas Ridley, James Calfhill, and Theodore Beza, rejected practices that they described as cross worship . Considering it a form of idolatry, there was a dispute in 16th century England over the baptismal use of the sign of the cross and even the public use of crosses . There were more active reactions to religious items that were thought as' relics of Papacy', as happened for example in September 1641, when Sir Robert Harley, pulled down and destroyed the cross at Wigmore . Writers during the 19th century indicating a pagan origin of the cross included Henry Dana Ward, Mourant Brock, and John Denham Parsons . David Williams, writing of medieval images of monsters, says: "The disembodied phallus is also formed into a cross, which, before it became for Christianity the symbol of salvation, was a pagan symbol of fertility ." The study, Gods, Heroes & Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain states: "Before the fourth century CE, the cross was not widely embraced as a sign of Christianity, symbolizing as it did the gallows of a criminal ." </P> <P> Jehovah's Witnesses do not use the symbol of the cross in their worship, which they believe constitutes idolatry . They believe that Jesus died on a single upright torture stake rather than a two - beam cross, arguing that the Greek term stauros indicated a single upright pole . Although early Watch Tower Society publications associated with the Bible Student movement taught that Christ was executed on a cross, it no longer appeared on Watch Tower Society publications after the name Jehovah's witnesses was adopted in 1931, and use of the cross was officially abandoned in 1936 . </P> <P> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints teaches that Jesus died on a cross, however, their prophet Gordon B. Hinckley stated that "for us the cross is the symbol of the dying Christ, while our message is a declaration of the living Christ ." When asked what was the symbol of his religion, Hinckley replied "the lives of our people must become the only meaningful expression of our faith and, in fact, therefore, the symbol of our worship ." Prophet Howard W. Hunter encouraged Latter - day Saints "to look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership ." Images of LDS temples and the Angel Moroni (who is found in statue on most temples) are commonly used to symbolize the LDS faith . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> A wooden cross at Coventry Cathedral, constructed of the remnants of beams found after the Coventry Blitz </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Cross of Sacrifice or War Cross, from a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Cross in Valle de los Caídos near Madrid, the highest cross in the world </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Kottakkavu Sliva, a Persian cross founded by Mar Sabor and Mar Proth, is preserved at Kottakkavu Mar Thoma Syro - Malabar Pilgrim Center, North Paravur, India . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Millennium Cross in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, one of the biggest crosses in the world </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Cross on the Hill, a 199 - foot (61 m) cross located in Bossier City, Louisiana </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Tile cross from Rødtvet Church in Oslo, Norway, built in 1978 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Ruthwell Cross, a stone Anglo - Saxon cross located in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The World Trade Center Cross rises from the World Trade Center wreckage . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Altar and cross in the Chapel at Callaway Gardens </P> </Li> <Li> <P> USVA headstone emblem 1 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> USVA headstone emblem 14 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Holly Cross with which the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was founded in Spain . </P> </Li> </Ul>

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