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Title: The Most Superficial and Uninformed Treatment of This Material Possible
Review: If you want to buy a book full of public figures making the peace sign and the "El Diablo" sign (or "I love you" depending on your interpretation), and then have that be the basis for calling each of them a Satanist, then go ahead and waste your money.If you are looking for a history of the use of hand-signs for communication, or the actual literal and symbolic meanings and disambiguation to the interpretations of these hand-signs, you will be every bit as disappointed as I was. The hand signs discussed and "interpreted" are done so through one lens and one paradigm only - through the eyes of a fundamentalist Christian who can only see a "sign of the Devil." Very little history of such symbolism is given and when it is, it is distorted to fit the purely Fundamentalist Christian paradigm.There are far more informative ways to look at this data. This book does not explore any of them.
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