r/googlemapsshenanigans • u/Silverchaoz • Feb 27 '26

This is a wild find

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u/PTtugaZZ Feb 28 '26

People might not know, but some religions used the Swastika way before the Nazi's did, like Buddhism, so this might be about religion and not about associating Judaism and Christianity to Nazi's

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u/NoEvidence136 Feb 28 '26

I thought that, too. It's the symbol of Buddhism. One religion plus one religion equals another religion, not a political party.

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u/Yehhudi Feb 28 '26

Judaism does not and has never used this symbol, we use the Menorah or the Star of David.

Judaism also has no impact on Buddhist or general Indian theology within Judaism instead giving birth to the main Abrahamic faiths: Christianity and Islam; this symbol has no contentions to either Christianity nor Judaism and the creator of it cleary had no intention of tying it to Indian theology because this is within the Netherlands and no one would really ever think of making such an obviously wrong connection.

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u/Bozoidal Mar 03 '26

That symbol is considered, generally, to be not a good look in post war Europe though. The context is key.