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Others were killed too, but it takes a lot longer to make a Star of David than it does to make a cross.
As I'm sure you've seen in the newspapers for the past month or so, they are giving out the steel from Hangar 17 left and right for memorials all over the country. I think using some of it to make a Star of David for the Memorial is a pretty cool idea. Let a NYC artist do it.
We could take this further and have an entire COEXIST in the appropriate symbols made...
putting up anything symbolic for a certain religion is wrong
Putting up symbols for each an every one (would that be a blank space for non-believers??) would be awkward If anything at all is needed, why not something universal, such as the peace symbol?
The World Trade Center site is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The National Memorial and Museum built on the site is its own entity and was built with donations.
Neither the PA nor the Memorial gets tax revenue, if that's where you are going.
putting up anything symbolic for a certain religion is wrong
Putting up symbols for each an every one (would that be a blank space for non-believers??) would be awkward If anything at all is needed, why not something universal, such as the peace symbol?
You're missing the point. It's not being put there because some religious artifact is needed or for any religious purpose. It's being put there because the museum is about 9/11 and its aftermath, and the steel cross is part of that story.
It meant something to SOME of the thousands of workers on the pile. It meant nothing to many others. But, it's still part of the story.
I apologize for not having read closely enough to notice it is a Memorial & Museum.
If it is an artifact, especially one that had meaning to people that were there, then I see nothing wrong with it as part of a museum
Sounds likea possible agreement according to this.
“It’s an all or nothing deal. They can remove the cross, or they can let everybody else in. Either way is legal and we would drop the case,” said Silverman. And the 9/11 museum’s executive director Joe Daniels says they’ll do just that; the AP reports that the museum will make and display Stars of David, more crosses and other religious symbols, as well." http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/1242...re-they-wrong/
The cross is appropriate as it shows which god allowed that tragedy to occur.
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