• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    A perversion of the word Martyr as it requires one to walk in faith. The appropriating of religious symbols merely as an aesthetic is really on brand…

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      Martyr apparently comes from Greek meaning “one who testifies in court.” The religious connotations came later.