Why don’t Mormon churches have crosses on them?
Latter-day Saints object to the use of a cross on their buildings and the wearing of the cross. They view the symbolism of the cross as having a pagan origin and that it symbolizes Christ’s torture and death, not his resurrection. LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie stated: “The sectarian world falsely suppose that the climax of his (Christ’s) torture and suffering was on the cross …– a view which they keep ever before them by the constant use of the cross as a religious symbol. The fact is that intense and severe as the suffering was on the cross, yet the great pains were endured in the Garden of Gethsemane. (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p.
Latter-day Saints object to the use of a cross on their buildings and the wearing of the cross. They view the symbolism of the cross as having a pagan origin and that it symbolizes Christ’s torture and death, not his resurrection. LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie stated: “The sectarian world falsely suppose that the climax of his (Christ’s) torture and suffering was on the cross …– a view which they keep ever before them by the constant use of the cross as a religious symbol. The fact is that intense and severe as the suffering was on the cross, yet the great pains were endured in the Garden of Gethsemane. (Bruce R.
