From Firehouse.com: A judge should toss out a lawsuit by a national atheists group
seeking to stop the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the
wreckage of the World Trade Center, lawyers for the operators of the
Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero say.
The lawyers said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan
on Monday that the 17-foot-tall beam will be displayed as a historical
object because it tells part of the story of the rescue and recovery
effort after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the
twin towers and killed thousands of people.
They said the display of the cross among 1,000 artifacts, photos,
oral histories and videos is no different from the showing of hundreds
of religious paintings routinely displayed at government-supported art
museums.
The nonprofit group American Atheists sued the National September 11
Memorial & Museum's operators last year, saying the beam's display
would be unconstitutional. A message left with a lawyer for the group
was not immediately returned Wednesday. http://www.firehouse.com/news/10760123/sept-11-memorial-defends-display-of-steel-cross
It's a freaking beam of two pieces of iron. It never was in a Church nor blessed by a minister. It was inspiration of the firefighters, police officers, iron workers and others who worked at the site.
If these atheists are so scared of 2 pieces of iron then they are probably afraid of their shadows and bunny rabbits.
Or they are just looking for attention like two year olds who are in their terrible two's. Or like this guy:
Is It Hovde's "Give Up" Time?
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I'm an atheist, and I don't care if it's there. I don't understand how it's an inspiration either. . .that's one twisted deity if He crafted a homage to himself out of the twisted rubble of a mass grave. But you know, whatever. . .
ReplyDeleteThere are some battles that aren't worth fighting. "In God We Trust" shouldn't be on the money, but it will stay there, and there's no reason to make the Supreme Court tie itself in knots to try to justify it. "Under God" shouldn't be in the Pledge of Allegiance, but we probably shouldn't be pledging allegiance in a free country anyway, and it was just a gimmick to sell flags in the first place! I get why people get perturbed over it, but it's just not worth fighting over.