Pomona Versus Jesus?
An interesting ongoing meme on the ACLU and removal of the cross from the Los Angeles County seal has been the yelps over why if the cross has been removed why not the Goddess Pomona? The comments have ranged from outraged to snarky.
” Not at all, according to an ACLU spokesman who called the free-standing cross an “impermissible endorsement of Christianity.’ Goddess Pomona save us from such narrow, bigoted thinking.” – Pasadena Star-News
” After all, was the ACLU concerned only with removing religious iconography from county logos, it wouldn’t have started with the minuscule cross on the seal’s periphery, but the gigantic Roman deity at its center — Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruits and the trees that bear them. In pagan times, Romans worshipped Pomona at a special altar, while outside the city gates they maintained, in her honor, a fruit-tree grove called a Pomonal.” – Chris Weinkopf
“If there is no place in secular society for the cross on the Los Angeles county seal, what in heaven’s name is Pomona, the Roman goddess of orchards, doing in the middle of it?” – Financial Times
As much as I see the legal pursuits to remove crosses to be a bit of a waste of time, anyone who is trying to connect the current use of Roman iconography with any sort of thriving pagan religion is deluded at best and willfully ignorant at worst. The images of these “Gods” and “Goddesses” you see in official seals, buildings and monuments were made long after the triumph of Christianity and the fall of Roman paganism. To the mostly Christian secularists who designed them they are merely pretty personifications of nature and industry. So take your man of straw and find a better debate.
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