Court rules 9/11 cross can remain at museum

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A victory against the rewriting of our history.

Last edited by AntDog on 29 Jul 2014, 7:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

exactly what history are you talking about? separation of church and state? the court allowed the cross to remain by saying it isn't a religious symbol.

Atheists need to pick their battles a little better if you ask me. It is not like a group of people went and put the cross up. It just happened to still be there after the incident happened.

The guy who found the cross disagrees with the court.

?Faith won over atheism,? the retired Silecchia, who now lives in South Carolina, told the Daily News Monday. ?I?m kind of proud because that was my initial goal: to help ease the burden of humanity.

I think the court knows the truth too.

I'm agnostic and to me this is a piece of architecture which is now of great historical significance. Just because it happens to look like a cross and people attach meaning to it that is religious is not a reason to call it a religious object.

Fact: It was not built AS a religious symbol. That alone makes these idiots trying to take it down lose their case and prove their imbecility to the world at large.

I'm an atheist and I agree with you. There are bigger fish to fry; things like the attempted subversion of science education by creationists trying to sneak creationism into science classes. Some "I" beam girders from the twin towers in the shape of a cross is of no/negligible importance in the scheme of things.

A couple observations:

The buildings were made of steel girders joined at right angles. Finding, in the wreckage, two fragments of steel girders still joined at right angles is not "a sign from God" and I pity anybody who thinks it is. If God wanted to send a signal, why didn't he stop the attacks and prevent the murders of nearly 3000 innocent people?

A memorial to the 9/11 attacks is the last place, the least appropriate place on Earth, for any kind of shrine to religious faith.

I wouldn't have expended a lot of energy fighting this thing myself. Had a petition presented itself, though, I would have signed it without hesitation.