“And your students,” Sato demanded, “don’t find it unnerving that Masons meditate with skulls andscythes?”“No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting infront of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root ofprejudice”
Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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