AHC Make the Cross an unacceptable symbol of Christianity for Protestants in most countries

In most countries of the world, the unadorned Crucifix is usually accepted as a universal symbol of Christianity, no matter the denomination.

In Hungary however, usually only Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran believers are comfortable with the Crucifix (even the unadorned simple Cross), and Protestants (particularily Calvinists and Unitarians) explicitly reject the Cross and use alternative symbols. Calvinist churches are topped with a Star (representing the Star of Bethlehem), and graves are either adorned with a Chalice, or increasingly nowadays, with non-figurative vine-like patterns similar to Islamic art. It is also traditionally considered to be of bad taste to genuflect and make the Sign of the Cross in front of a Calvinist or Unitarian grave.
Modern Neo-Protestant churches in Hungary similarily reject the Cross as a symbol.

How could this become a worldwide tendency, that the Cross is used as a symbol only for Traditional Christianity?
 
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Doesn't seem that difficult. Have the aniconism of the Protestant Reformation go a little harder and have a general rejection of "idolatrous" traditionally Catholic symbols in favor of other things like the Chalice you mentioned or an adoption of the older symbol of the fish. You'd end of with the cross representing the Catholic sects and some new symbology representing the Protestants and their descendant branches.
 

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Doesn't seem that difficult. Have the aniconism of the Protestant Reformation go a little harder and have a general rejection of "idolatrous" traditionally Catholic symbols in favor of other things like the Chalice you mentioned or an adoption of the older symbol of the fish. You'd end of with the cross representing the Catholic sects and some new symbology representing the Protestants and their descendant branches.

I really like the idea of the Fish as a symbol of Protestantism.

The Fish as the oldest (?) Christian symbol is a nice idea.

And "Crosses vs. Fishes" would be a badass unofficial name for the conflict parties in a religious civil war.
 
Mormons don't like it, I have never understood why its used as a symbol like it is, it seems simple enough why would you want to celebrate the torture of someone like that? Catholic rosaries have always freaked me out. Well the ones with an actual little model of a dying Jesus on it. I was raised LDS, it was just a big ole nope for us.
 
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