Q&A: Would you wear a gun necklace if Jesus had been shot? Yes — the cross symbolizes the instrument of our salvation

Winger's response: the cross is not worn because it is beautiful or aesthetically pleasing, but because of the shocking nature of what happened on it. Paul's words "we glory in the cross" (Galatians 6:14) mean that Christians deliberately highlight what pagans find foolish — because the cross is where sin was paid for and salvation was accomplished. The Watchtower literature itself uses the same rhetorical device.