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My headcanon is that Jesus was the first zombie, and that after the zombies defeated the vampires in the Great Zombie-Vampire War of AD 39 he put a curse on them to be allergic to crucifixes.
As hokey as the novels are, I like the Dresden Files’ explanation for this. Where the symbol itself doesn’t actually matter, it’s a person’s unwavering faith into what that symbol represents.
That’s how it works in VTM too. I remember reading about a vampire that got wrecked by a credit card, as the businessman wielding it believed in the power of money.