Posted on 03/08/2014 9:38:16 AM PST by Jacob Kell
There has been so much news lately of schools, organizations, and individuals being harassed by atheist groups, but this one sets a new low. In this case, a grieving mother erected a roadside cross where her son was killed, and now an atheist group has forced her to take it down. What is wrong with these people???
As reported by The Press Enterprise, a roadside cross was erected for 19-year-old Anthony Vincent Devaney who in May 2012 was killed crossing a street.
A complaint prompted the American Humanist Association in Washington, D.C., to intervene, contending the placement of the symbol in the city right-of-way violated the separation of church and state.
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Sorry, but the First Amendment trumps what you believe to be in “disgustingly poor taste.”
These memorials are not on private property against the will of the land owner, but are on public land.
Sometimes they may be at the corner of an intersection or on the side or the road or just off the sidewalk near a home or hospital where someone died or even sometimes near an abortion mill where thousands have been murdered.
Again, it is a First Amendment Right.
The don’t “forget” that part. The choose to IGNORE it.
And we allow that.
Time for some very serious push-back on these cretins.
“I feel for them but there comes a time when you have to let go and move on.”
Several miles from my house, on the main road into town, there’s a 10’x10’ shrine to a dead boy. The family maintains it and adds and subtracts toys, flags, etc. It is unattractive and on public property. But it’s been there at least 10 years. I think the prevailing attitude is “fine.” Nobody, apparently, has complained. The road maintenance guys have to go around it, but that’s the extent of impact as far as public cost.
I feel for the people who really should let this tragedy go and move on.
I’ll believe these people when they complain about the screaming bearded savages who are getting special privileges from our current administration.
They are in the process.
Yes — most people of non-Christian faiths will still respect the symbol of the cross used by Christians. Like your Jewish friends who put up a Star of David. They assert what they believe to be a positive thing.
Militant atheists, and self-hating weak or nominal Christians, will attack the cross. I’ve seen too disgustingly many weak Christians, who think it a great offense to get “too religious.” They’ll even display the Christian fish but quail at the cross. But the cross is where the power is. It’s what Jesus did to take our sins away and open the door to giving us new strength.
I’ve seen these things all over. They are memorials erected where someone died from a traffic accident, or something like that. They’re usually on public property, which is likely why she’s being asked to remove it. I suspect it has nothing to do with it being a cross, though most of the memorials are crosses, simply because the majority of folks in this country are nominally Christian.
Such a shrine, if it was made necessary by careless driving or drunk driving, can be useful to get people to think. Watch what you do with that car or truck, because you might extinguish a little life.
Not atheists. Anti-theists. I was an atheist and I never cared about crosses. These whiners are a bunch of Drama Queens and Haters.
Each one larger than the last one. Anchored with concrete.
Separation of Church and State is not a law, it’s a thought attributed to the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Up North in Wisconsin the practice is if they are on public right of way they are removed after six months.
Or, “militant atheists.”
There are frank nonbelievers who still will live and let live as far as what believers want to do.
But then there are frank nonbelievers with a nanny complex. That gets ugly.
I’d like to posit something. It might be true or false but it seems to me it could be true.
Maybe some nonbelievers actually do sense God but are so set on fighting Him that they will go to almost any length to give believers grief, just to try to get them to say that belief really doesn’t matter. Of course they won’t say that.
The ones that fight might even be closer to God than the ones who don’t care.
I think it is more of a combination of “Attention Whore” and “Self Righteous Busybody” thing. They feel that the idea that some nameless faceless entity MIGHT be offended trumps the fact that this family lost a child.
These Haters need to order themselves a long tall refreshing glass of STFU.
It’s almost as if they think there ought to be a God that tells everyone to shut up about Him.
If she could find a judge that wasn’t an 0bama/Soros picked.
I disagree. These eyesores are all over the place. The right of way is maintained. That means the town/county/state/whatever cuts back grass(to prevent an eyesore and keep down down mosquitos and pollen). Postings of any kind interfere with that.
During elections, the easements bristle with wire/ paper election poster. These are removed by the highway depart right after elections. Freedom of speech acknowledged and is temporary.
If the highway easement is for all to exercise free speech then the roads will look like a third world slum as not only memorials but people selling everything imaginable posting there junk.
I firmly beleive in free speech. Doesn’t mean you can litter or put up signs anywhere you want.
Keeping the mangled bike in a dead child’s room is indeed a little unhealthy. But the roadside shrines and crosses are not in the same category, in my view. They serve as a reminder and a warning to passers-by: This is a dangerous crossing, life is transient, there but for the grace of God go you, don’t drink and drive, don’t text and drive, etc. I always pay more attention when I see a roadside cross or flower-covered shrine. At least let the death be a warning.
There’s also the relative importance of matters.
Typically one of these will appear due to some kind of careless driving.
“Be careful with your car” is a plausible public service message.
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