Athiests want iron ground zero cross excluded from museum

[DauntlessDan]

Athiests advocate it wasn't just Christians killed in the towers and want cross excluded from national 911 museum.

‘This cross screams Christianity’: Atheists launch lawsuit over Ground Zero cross | National Post

[justtitans]

This just doesn't make a ton of sense. Removing this cross would not really accomplish much for atheists. Even if you removed it, right then you did less harm to Christianity and more harm to the honor that was given to the victims of 9/11. This is small potatoes. If atheists' goal is to promote their 'beliefs', then this isn't the way to do it. If want to shows your support for the victims, then why not just get your own memorial. That should be the main option to go about this instead of the "Plan B". If your goal is to honor the victims, then why disrespect those who choose to honor them in their own way? Why not honor them in your way and keep it moving?

[NYChistorygal]

Atheist speaking. I WANT the cross at the memorial. This is one group, not all atheists.

[The Dissenter]

I'm not religious at all. That cross I see as a sign of hope and survival and perseverance on 9-11 more than a religious symbol. America needed on that day, it should be memorialized.

[Dane_in_LA]

Also an atheist, and find the cross perfectly relevant in the context of the museum, so...

There is no group that doesn't attract argumentative a-holes, atheists included.

[d from birmingham]

The cross is stupid. Those idiot workers propped a piece of metal up rather then work to rescue people. Because of that people died.

[love roses]

Then where were you? Were you there trying to rescue people? If you weren't, then I wouldn't be calling those that were there idiots.

[BigDGeek]

Jewish here...I don't care if they put it in or not.

[Davy-040]

They couldn't design a non-religious symbol?

[bUU]

The cross is stupid. Its inclusion in the memorial was a patently inane placating of the majority religion and its vacuous superstition. However, Christians, collectively, acting as a mob, are a bullying, often priggish, majority, and it is simply not worth the strife that opposing the inclusion of the cross in this memorial would generate.