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I'm one of the atheistest atheists who ever failed to worship at the non-altar of the non-god Atheos, and I will gladly call these guys attention-whoring a-holes who are doing nobody any favors at all.
The display clearly passes the Lemon test, and that's the end of that.
[b]Too many people have tried to turn the Constitution into a protection against being personally offended by things other people do or say. Some of these fools just want to ban things that other people do, even though they will never see or hear them do it.
This is purely hilarious as the Constitution merely lays out the framework for federal government and it's powers. The Constitution was meant to limit the powers government has whereas those who seek to use it as described above are asking legal counsel to do something not legal.
If a topic is not enumerated in the document the 10A puts all other concerns into the hand of individual states, which is where these cases should be heard and not on merits of the Constitution, as I pointed out previously.
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Wonderful quote from a judge this week in the Ground Zero cross lawsuit. Atheists are trying to get the cross removed. The judge is pressing them to explain what they find so offensive about the historical artifact. And how its mere presence causes them "harm."
The article ends with this quote from the judge:
Wow. Simple common sense that seems not to be so common any more. This kind of common sense should be applied to so many more cases on a myriad of issues.
Exactly. It was a piece of rubble that in the course of that event somehow melded into the shape of a common Christian symbol by pure chance, not by human intervention. Therefore, its a very rare case where it shouldn't be removed.
Wonderful quote from a judge this week in the Ground Zero cross lawsuit. Atheists are trying to get the cross removed. The judge is pressing them to explain what they find so offensive about the historical artifact. And how its mere presence causes them "harm."
The article ends with this quote from the judge:
Wow. Simple common sense that seems not to be so common any more. This kind of common sense should be applied to so many more cases on a myriad of issues.
It's nice to hear this from a judge. Speaking as someone who is 100% against the people who thought the Islamic center near ground zero was offensive, it's about time someone said not agreeing with an individuals narrow view of the world is not offensive.
Who cares if they're a cross. Put the Star of David up if you feel unrepresented. Put the Islamic crescent moon up if you feel unrepresented? But the yin-yang symbol up if you feel unrepresented. Seriously, just because it's not your religion, doesn't mean they're forcing it on you. If it said 'bow to this cross or you'll go to Hell' then yeah, get it out of there. But it's just a cross, meant to be a kind gesture to the victims (and their families) of an attack. Get over it.
And no, I'm not religious. Just not easily offended.
Exactly. It was a piece of rubble that in the course of that event somehow melded into the shape of a common Christian symbol by pure chance, not by human intervention. Therefore, its a very rare case where it shouldn't be removed.
That's exactly the way I see it. It is a chance that the iconography of the Christian faith was one of the rubble pieces that we all remember from Ground Zero.
I believe this is a great thing that we need to remember so long as it don't infringe on others rights. In this case, the cross isn't forcing Atheists, Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians to convert to Christianity.
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