Y logo.

I usually get accused of being stodgy or negative, but generally reality is worse than I think.  I assume things are better than they are not worse.  The ‘Y’ logo was like this.  It has bothered me for a while that the ‘Young Men’s Christian Association’ has been turned into—just—‘young’.  I think it is very fitting.  The Christian part obviously has been removed from our culture.  And referring to or organizing something around men is also out, thank you feminists.  And even the association is mostly gone.  Young people don’t form associations or become members of churches, because then they might be associated with the negatives of any human collaborative effort.  We are not joiners.  We do worship youth, however.  We love youth, anything youth do is good, correct, right, moral.  Parents go to the churches their kids like.  Parents let their kids dictate everything, because they know how to work technology.  And most of the people in those ‘Y’ gyms are there pretending they are a lot younger than they really are.  Worshipping youth.

But then on looking into the history of the YMCA logo, it’s even worse.  The original logo contained a Bible verse and a Bible. Oh my.  Long before the days of multiculturalism, it was a verse about bringing the world together under the Gospel.  John 17:21.  It was in Roman numerals! Who knows what those are anymore?  This verse is Jesus praying for his disciples in the garden sweating blood.

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one”

Original 1871 Crest.

What a beautiful, sentiment, goal, war cry!  The old logo reiterates the importance of this plea by calling out all the populated continents.  And in the background is the ‘chi-rho’.  The first two letters of ‘Kristos’, ‘Christ’ in the Greek alphabet ‘X’ and ‘P’.  This monogram was one of the earliest symbols of the Christian.  You find it carved all over ancient caves and rocks in Turkey to this day.

What a shame.