The ‘Swastika’ used as your featured image looks a lot prettier than the one used by German Nazi soldiers during the wars and by modern day neo-Nazis, Aryan nation and similar hate groups who look down on people of color as being inferior.

Hi Barnali,

That’s a good blog on the meaning and origin of swastika. It was the Nazi under Adolf Hitler who gave swastika a bad connotation when they adopted it as symbol of the Nazi party and I guess that “hated symbol” had a lasting impression on the mind of the people as symbol of oppression and fascism.

History wise you are right that the swastika symbol is not a bad symbol. Again it is only the NAZI and Hitler who polluted and prostituted the good meaning of the swastika symbol.

I understand that they even outlawed the Nazi Swastika symbol in Europe due to the many war crimes committed by Nazi Germany especially the holocaust of around 6 million Jews.

The reverse is true with the cross as a symbol. It used to be that the cross is a symbol of shame, punishment, and death during the olden days especially at the time of the Roman Empire.

But with the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, for Christians it is no longer a symbol of shame, death and punishment but of salvation and the everything that is associated with our Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity for that matter.

So we can see how the meaning of a particular symbol may change over time depending upon its usage and the interpretation associated with it.