Cursing Stone

Say your prayers! An ancient "cursing stone" used by Christian pilgrims to curse their enemies has just been found in the island of Canna, Scotland:

The round stone with an early Christian cross engraved on it, also known as a “bullaun” stone, is believed to be the first of its type to be found in Scotland, and was discovered by chance in an old graveyard on the island.

More commonly found in Ireland, the stones were used by ancient Christian pilgrims, who would turn them either while praying or when laying a curse, and were often to be found on sacred pilgrim routes. Traditionally, the pilgrim would turn the stone clockwise, wearing a depression or hole in a bigger “socket” stone underneath.

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I'll go with the experts at the National Trust for Scotland and the University of Glasgow rather than the internet never-will-bes. And if anyone thinks that christians would never wish ill on their enemies then I'm afraid they've never actually met a representative of that particular group.
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Christianity, like pretty much every religion, subsumed the existing religions that it replaced. In the process it absorbed the existing non-Christian beliefs and rituals and turned them into its own. There's lots of examples of pagan rites that became Christian...just as there are lots of Bon rites absorbed into Tibetan Buddhism. The celebrations on the winter solstice and spring equinox are the most obvious examples where Christmas and Easter replaced pagan celebrations that occurred in the same period.
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Christianity mixed with paganism to a large extent, especially as it spread into new areas. Russia, just as an example, saw prayers used as magic spells, especially taking the form of previous pagan spells, and placing an object under the altar was supposed to give it power, something priests tried to discourage. As for Christians behaving in an un-Christian manner, we hardly have to go back hundreds of years to see that kind of behavior. So the idea that this could be Christian is not farfetched, although it might be something pagan that was then carved with the new religion's symbol.
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just because it (read person) says “Christian” on the outside doesn’t mean it’s Christian on the inside. It’s either “by the Book” or it’s fake.

Defining Christianity is not a simple task. What Thomas Oden calls "consensual theology" is probably the best approach to take.

A "by the Book" method has serious limits, made plain when popular theology (that which is practiced by the adherents) is in serious conflict with creedal statements.
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I don't know about existence or non-existence of historical references to other stones like this being used by Christians so I can't really discount the possibility of it being a Christian artifact.

Using magic to hurt people doesn't sound very Christian, though.
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To add to what Franno is saying:

I find no compelling evidence to believe this cross of Christian origins. The cross as a symbol is older than history. It was used by the Egyptians and formed the base of the Ankh symbol - which one may argue is the original Christian Cross.

I plowed through hundreds of different crosses Christian and otherwise and could not find any that are identical to this one. This cross is equisdistant in all directions and each arm of the cross terminates at an inverted semicircle. I found no such crosses in my searches.

A traditional Celtic/Irish cross does not look like that either. It is typically a cross with beveled edges, bowed ends and set inside of a complete circle with a lot of pretzels.
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The cross is first and foremost a pagan symbol... and, even if these were in fact early Christians... just because it (read person) says "Christian" on the outside doesn't mean it's Christian on the inside. It's either "by the Book" or it's fake.
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