Catholics always depicted Christ as effeminate because of Mithra worship. Mithra is associated with Hermaphrodites or the 'Supreme Androgyne'. It's derived from Zurvanism/ Zoroastrianism. Christ should be depicted as a masculine and physically fit, idealised European, Atlantid or Nordid phenotype. Hermaphrodite worship is antithetical to the Bible. I'd say it's pretty weird to adopt the device that was used to kill someone you look up to, as the symbol of your faction or sect but it's probably better to use something more nuanced than a whip. Quite hard to change that now though. You could adopt strong & uplifting imagery from many passages. The death of Christ is of course important but to outsiders it appears to be some kind of blood sacrifice. A debt owed to Baal, that was paid off. If that is the genuine meaning, I want nothing to do with it, but I can also see a completely different, powerful meaning behind it. I'll try to summarise: -The eternal God, the Alfather, first created a reflection of himself, his First Born Son, or "the Word," the perfect medium, being both God and apart of creation. They are equal in character and worshipfulness. -When he saw the distrust Eve had for him, for being ultimately powerful over her, he knew what he'd have to do to prove that he genuinely cared for his creations and address the slander against him from the adversary. -Thus despite knowing that Christ would suffer and be killed, he would still have to place him in that vulnerable position in order to achieve what was necessary.