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| Atheists continue battle against World Trade Center cross at memorial |
| 2012-09-13 |
| (CNN) -- Eleven years after the World Trade Center attack, the billion dollar memorial and museum dedicated to the victims of 9/11 is just half that - a memorial without an operating museum. And though a dispute between New York City's mayor and New York's governor is responsible for delaying the opening, a separate legal battle is aimed at blocking one museum exhibit in particular: a large cross made of one of the twin tower's T-beams that became a national symbol in the days after the 2001 attacks. A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all. "It is important that it not be displayed to the exclusion of everyone else," said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, which first filed suit in July 2011. "This case is about inclusion, it is not about the elimination of religion, it is about the inclusion of everyone." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 How come they don't bitch about religious services in prisons? They do. Our local atheists bitch about every religious activity that is not Muslim or New Age. And a local wiccan once sued for the right to be a prison chaplain, and then a few years later was fired for having affairs with inmates. |
| Posted by: mom 2012-09-13 17:33 |
| #8 How come these fanatic sepration of church and state types never bitch about government funded religeous services that take place in prisons? |
| Posted by: Gleregum tse Tung1512 2012-09-13 16:18 |
| #7 What Fred said. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-09-13 14:47 |
| #6 Atheism is a religion that worships an antigod. It cannot make its presence known until other gods are banished. The antigod's name is probably Allen. |
| Posted by: Fred 2012-09-13 13:19 |
| #5 Nihilists! Fu@k me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-09-13 10:50 |
| #4 Exclusion of the Cross = Inclusion? The towers were attacked because of the Cross and anything else non-Islamic. The Athiests win, the Islamists win. And then the Islamists will behead the athiests when they are not needed anymore. On the spiritual warfare level, the old devil has many tools at his disposal in the destruction of those created in the likeness of God. The Cross of Redemption still stands in America whether the anti-Christs or the bloody savages like it or not. |
| Posted by: Unomosh Johnson2128 2012-09-13 10:22 |
| #3 Tyranny of the loud and noisy minority. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-09-13 09:03 |
| #2 A small unrepresentative minority of atheists. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2012-09-13 05:45 |
| #1 So nail one of them to it and put it up. See? Inclusion! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-09-13 01:31 |