Back in my school years (60's) we were strongly discouraged from wearing crosses. I never owned any cross jewelry.

Today, a BYU player (Allgeier) got drafted into the NFL and when he was interviewed his cross was big and prominent. I don't know if he is a member but he was on the football team. It was just an observation and I wondered if there would be any scolding from his minders.

Discouraged? Are you kidding me? That would have been a spanking infraction!

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/byu-cougars/2021/09/04/tyler-allgeier-is-cougars/

"It’s a religious school. I’m not LDS, but I actually felt the spirit and I thought it was the right choice for me to come here.”

The church used to freak out if a convert said God bless you or may God bless you. It was considered taking the lord's name in vain- blasphemy.

So wearing a cross was considered sacrilege and people would receive an explicit warning to not wear one.

Yup. We worship the living Christ not a dead one.

Wearing torture devices as jewelry is a little creepy, no?

Kinda like a fan of JFK wearing a little rifle around their neck.

That's the stance the COJCOLDS has always taken.

One time I was in a Mormon Sunday School class when a recent convert walked in wearing a silver cross. You would have thought the class was full of vampires the way everyone shied away from her.
Someone must have given her 'the talk' as she never wore the cross again for the short time she stayed active.

I suppose a ceramic mug with crosses on it and filled with black coffee would be an especially effective Mormon repellant.

I have a little silver cross that my parents gave me for Christmas when I was 15 years old.

Most of the people at my former place of employment were LDS.

Two years before I took my early retirement, I wore my little silver cross often to work. It was amusing to watch their different reactions the first couple times I wore it.

Some looked at me like I was a dragon coming after them. Others were more nonchalant and it didn’t bother them. No one hassled me about it, so I wore it when I pleased.

I have two female, ExMo friends (in the moridor) who purposely wear a cross so people won’t automatically think they are Mormons. They are not religious at all.

The Cross.
The letter T, the last letter of Hebrew alphabet Taw, Tav, the End, the Completion, the Covenant letter, to sign a document with a cross, the end before the beginning.
Just some thoughts.

You can attribute whatever quasi-inspirational symbolism to it that you want to, but considering that many people wear a cross not sans Jesus, but including him, hanging there in all his miserable and tortured agony, your comments come across as an attempted diversion, a distraction, and maybe even an admission, because deep down inside you know the real beliefs, the idolization of a torturous murder, inexplicably required by a wrathful diety, are weird.

Thanks Humberto.
So glad I was able to help you vent your spleen.

No anger here, just a bit of eye rolling at the awkward attempt to improve Christianity's marketing strategy.

Most interesting. Makes a lot more sense than a reminder for an instrument of torture.

Thanks. Their letter for ‘t’ is a cross I believe.

Sorry jazbo that should read pictogram representing the letter ‘t’.

The church is in the midst of a great full-court press to make others believe that they are somehow mainstream Christians. So you'd think that ward leaders would be reading a first presidency letter at the pulpit telling people to wear crosses. They would be available, of course, for a hefty fee at the distribution centers.