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Atheist group wants to stop World Trade Center cross
CNN ^ | 07/26/2011 | n/a

Posted on 07/26/2011 12:38:57 PM PDT by Pyro7480

Edited on 07/26/2011 2:35:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A group of atheists has filed a lawsuit to stop the display of the World Trade Center cross at a memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: atheist; cross; memorial; wtc
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To: Pyro7480; All

Someday ... I pray... that the Seven in Heaven get a chance to kick these atheists’ butts.


21 posted on 07/26/2011 12:55:12 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Dominic01

I imagine they are okay with the Mosque?


22 posted on 07/26/2011 12:55:57 PM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: MNDude

Dittos. (Drat, beat me to it).


23 posted on 07/26/2011 12:57:40 PM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: Pyro7480; All

The “government enshrinement of the cross was an impermissible mingling of church and state,” the American Atheists say in a press statement.
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did anyone notice the atheists breathing a SINGLE word
of protest about the ground zero mosque???

(which recently won permission to go ahead...)

or did a single atheist object to the State Department and Military, building and repairing Mosques all over the world?


24 posted on 07/26/2011 12:58:30 PM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Pyro7480

You can build a mosque at Ground Zero, but not a cross or a Greek Orthodox Church?

Just another day in Obamaland. :)


25 posted on 07/26/2011 12:59:45 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think actually, yes. They appear to have a religious ferver for this.


26 posted on 07/26/2011 12:59:48 PM PDT by brytlea (Someone the other day said I'm not a nice person. How did they know?)
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To: Fedupwithit

The TWC belongs to the Port Authority of NY & NJ, which is a quasi govermental agency with police powers on its premises. It receives money from NY and NJ taxpayers and its leadership is overseen by the governors of NY & NJ.That being said, the PA provides a chapel at JFK.Its police dept has a department chaplain. The PA makes no claim as to the status of the cross, only that it is important to the families of many of the lost,many of the survivors and many of those who worked the recovery.As such, its presence is altogether fitting and proper.


27 posted on 07/26/2011 1:02:08 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!)
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To: Pyro7480

These people are vicious, evil, intolerant monsters.

The rest of us - the overwhelming majority of Americans who follow Judaeo-Christian beliefs, have OUR right infringed EVERYTIME these vicious iconoclasts impose their will upon us.

In addition to the first Amendment stating their shall be no estbalishment of religion, it ALSO clearly states that their shall be NO INFRINGEMENT of religion - which is exactly what these intolerant monsters are doing.

A close perusal of our founding fathers, their documents and their views on God and the state clarifies that they NEVER intended for the First Amendment to be employed in this fashion.

Read “Original Intent”!!


28 posted on 07/26/2011 1:03:27 PM PDT by ZULU (Crapo, Coburn and Chambliss are a herd of renegade RINOs.)
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To: dblshot
We should declare Atheism a religion.

Atheism is the religion of government.

It used to be called the Communist party.

29 posted on 07/26/2011 1:03:45 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Pyro7480

These people are vicious, evil, intolerant monsters.

The rest of us - the overwhelming majority of Americans who follow Judaeo-Christian beliefs, have OUR right infringed EVERYTIME these vicious iconoclasts impose their will upon us.

In addition to the first Amendment stating their shall be no estbalishment of religion, it ALSO clearly states that their shall be NO INFRINGEMENT of religion - which is exactly what these intolerant monsters are doing.

A close perusal of our founding fathers, their documents and their views on God and the state clarifies that they NEVER intended for the First Amendment to be employed in this fashion.

Read “Original Intent”!!


30 posted on 07/26/2011 1:03:57 PM PDT by ZULU (Crapo, Coburn and Chambliss are a herd of renegade RINOs.)
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To: Pyro7480

31 posted on 07/26/2011 1:04:23 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Pyro7480

Someday they’ll be contesting the placement of religious symbols on private property. Visible from the public street and all...


32 posted on 07/26/2011 1:07:19 PM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: Pyro7480

Partial solution: Let the Greek Orthodox Church rebuild St. Nicholas Church with as big a dome as they can afford, and a BIG ORTHODOX CROSS on top of the dome!!!!

They should also push the atheists aside, and include the cross that miraculously appeared in the middle of the ruins of the World Trade Center in the Memorial. But the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church cross should be the most visible in the area.

No Ground Zero mosque, either!!!!


33 posted on 07/26/2011 1:07:54 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Pyro7480

Did these people complain when the Empire State Building lit up in green for Ramadan?

When they so vociferously protest muslim displays... like PRAYER SESSIONS DURING SCHOOLTIME... they can get back to us.

Until then, godless ones, STFU.


34 posted on 07/26/2011 1:09:57 PM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: upchuck

It isn’t an establishment of a “Church” to put up a cross, so there is no violation.

Putting up a cross is no violation—what “church” is being established????—it is necessary for freedom OF religion in the public square.

The establishment clause has had that Marxian misapplication so that there is no reason and logic to it—as is all Marxist ideology—The Big Lie.

The establishment of ideology to the level of “religion” is also at fault—original documents would NEVER allow “Wiccan” or other pagan or Atheism to be classified as “religion” and would give it NO rights according to religious rights.

It is what has been done to the term—Religion—(making it meaningless like Marxism does to all words—(marriage) which is destroying the whole intent and meaning of the phrase —the freedom of religion shall NOT be ....


35 posted on 07/26/2011 1:10:22 PM PDT by savagesusie (Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Cicero)
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To: Pyro7480

These people are not atheists so much as anti-theists.


36 posted on 07/26/2011 1:13:58 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: ScottinVA

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_jersey&id=8270098


37 posted on 07/26/2011 1:15:30 PM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: Pyro7480

Where were they when the mosque was being rammed through?


38 posted on 07/26/2011 1:18:28 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: JohnnyP

haha! I couldn’t believe I was the 22nd poster and nobody else brought it up yet.


39 posted on 07/26/2011 1:18:59 PM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: ScottinVA

Just the way black interest groups do not really care about blacks or women’s groups don’t really care about women or PETA doesn’t really care about animals, atheists don’t really care about the “separation of church and state”. They’re all left-wing political groups dedicated to bankrupting and bringing down traditional America with endless lawsuits, protests, bullying and chaos.


40 posted on 07/26/2011 1:19:13 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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