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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: dblshot

The prohibition of religious expression is also unconstitutional. The no-god folks have a religious belief system, that there is no god, and they are quite positive of their theological viewpoint and try to shut down all those who have a disenting view.

Lately they have become quite intolerant (primarily of Christians, few speak out against Islam and some who do say Christianity is just as violent, if not worse).


61 posted on 07/26/2011 3:53:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The liberal press applauded when the NY Times hacked Newt Gingrich's phone calls.)
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To: dblshot

They can’t prove there is no God. They have faith in their thing. Of course it’s a religion...


62 posted on 07/26/2011 3:54:50 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: dead
I'm not secretly afraid that bigfoot might be real and coming to get me.

Youd deluded, trusting fool!


63 posted on 07/26/2011 3:56:13 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: Pyro7480
Atheists won't be satisfied until it is illegal to leave the flesh.
64 posted on 07/26/2011 3:57:23 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Will Geico save you 15% on your insurance? Is Obama an evil Marxist tyrannical son of a bitch?")
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To: Pyro7480

All of the people I personally knew who died in the World Trade Center that day were Christian. The cross must stay.


65 posted on 07/26/2011 4:00:24 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
They can’t prove there is no God. They have faith in their thing. Of course it’s a religion...

People have faith in many things.

"Religion" is the subset of faith in general, that people have specifically, in God.

Therefore atheism is not itself a religion. Not being a religion, it thus has no authority through the 1st Amendment against any genuine religious activity, as the 1st Amendment has nothing to do with atheism, by definition.

Which means that any suit by an atheist organization that invokes the 1st Amendment should be preemptively dismissed for lack of standing.

66 posted on 07/26/2011 4:03:25 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: jeffc

The site is controlled by the Port Authority of NY and NJ, which is a govt entity. Not that it matters, as far as I’m concerned. Obviously, the cross must stay.


67 posted on 07/26/2011 4:03:37 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Pyro7480

I bet they don’t have a problem with the mosque though.

They know who God is.


68 posted on 07/26/2011 4:14:49 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Pray. For all the latest, check out: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/)
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To: Just mythoughts

[ A genuine atheist would not be bothered by a cross. Or even the notion of others awareness of the Creator. Liberal drama queens. ]

You mean like an agnostic. Atheists seem to pursue anti-religion with the same sort of zeal used by others to farce religion down other’s throats.

The opposite of Love isn’t Hate, it is indifference. Because Love and Hate are on one side of the scale of passion where as indifference is on the other.

If i could trade every militant atheist in this country for 10 agnostics I would in an instant.


69 posted on 07/26/2011 4:19:58 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Pyro7480

I second that emotion, I am so sick of minority groups overruling the majority.

Screw ‘em.


70 posted on 07/26/2011 4:39:47 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: Pyro7480

But I’m sure they have no problem with the Mosque.


71 posted on 07/26/2011 4:56:00 PM PDT by rintense
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To: Pyro7480

I understand that other religous symbols made of parts
of the building will be in the museum, maybe they can
have a puddle of slag as the symbol for the atheists.


72 posted on 07/26/2011 5:01:32 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Pyro7480

Is the 9/11 Memorial a government building or government sponsored in any way (eg, is it fully funded by the government)?


73 posted on 07/26/2011 5:07:57 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: dblshot

“We should declare Atheism a religion. Then whenever there isn’t something erected anywhere we can sue them.”

I believe that has to get the post of the day award.


74 posted on 07/26/2011 5:21:52 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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75 posted on 07/26/2011 5:27:10 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Pyro7480

How do they feel about people building a mosque?


76 posted on 07/26/2011 5:44:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Liberal Era is over.)
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To: Pyro7480

Hmmm...Did they file a lawsuit yet against the individuals who yelled “Allah Akabar” before those planes killed 3000 people? And BTW, if there is no God, then explain to me the source of energy, action and result. Oh that’s right, by chance a non-force knocked over that first domino.

Ties right in with liberals BS explanation of Global warming. Nothing can be responsible for everything - How CO2, a gas that makes up only 0.04% of the earths atmosphere, which you can by the way call “zero point zero”, can equate the power of Venus when it comes to Global warming, which is a planet ruled by global warming solely because of water vapor.


77 posted on 07/26/2011 5:56:55 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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To: muawiyah

Looks like you’re missing some t’s..I have a couple of hundred spare if you’d like ‘em..


78 posted on 07/26/2011 6:29:24 PM PDT by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: Pyro7480

I guess the cowardly, godless bastards don’t have a problem with the muzzie’s 9/11 Victory Mosque though, huh?


79 posted on 07/26/2011 6:35:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
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To: pricilla
Well, jus darn. You didn' perhaps s eal hem from a Chris ian Church or some hing? I've heard hey have hem all over he place ~ some hing abou crucifixion!

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80 posted on 07/26/2011 6:50:30 PM PDT by muawiyah
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