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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They say that like it exists.
frankly, i loathe the roadside crosses... please commemorate where your loved one in his final resting place...
> These people need a country of their own.
They already have one. Its called Hell but they hae to die first.
It’s theirs even before they die, but they can also leave it before they die. If they choose to embrace the Lord in preference to it.
Atheism is a religion. Its the anti-Christian religion.
If they were sure God did not exist, then putting up crosses or saying prayers would be as meaningless to them as children playing or dogs barking. Why would they care? Yet the mention of God inflames them - why?
Never has anything been more misconstrued, twisted and stretched beyond recognition as “church and state.” Simply put, Congress can’t establish an official religion. The left has gotten enough traction out of this inappropriate application of misunderstood law. Turn them around.
The semi Catholic state of New Mexico breaks all the unholy rules of the left, on a regular basis, like putting crosses up on the side of the road.
I know.
Amazes me that they got so many Christians to vote for him. Maybe we’ve had it too easy and people didn’t remember what Reagan said about freedom potentially being only one generation away from being lost.
They would have a heyday in California. Since we are up to our ears in illegals we have not only crosses but shrines along every single road where one of them has been killed. They are everywhere!
I could (barely) understand 2008.
I have no explanation for 2012, though.
Except for the GOP Establishment saddling us with a guaranteed LOSER and massive VOTER FRAUD in Florida, Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
We have two former athiests in our church now. You would have never known they were both former athiests though. Both have said basically the same thing. They always suspected that there was a higher power from time to time but claimed to be athiests because of some form of pain in their life that was tied to faux Christians whether it was from hypocrisy they witnessed or were told about in the news media. It wasn’t until they actually visited a church where the Christians and their love were genuine that they felt the Holy Spiit and then understood what it meant from feeling it themselves. The laws of God are written in men’s hearts. Even athiests know this but won’t admit until they understand what that means.
The whole sense of “oughtness” is a nonsense if there isn’t a God. If a God is accepted then the question arises as to what kind of God that is. Small-o orthodox Christian faith offers the classiest God known to mankind. The problems, as you say, are in the implementation of the faith. We’re sinners and find it very hard not to be full of ourselves.
Also... former atheists do tend to try to be rigorous thinkers as Christians. Their minds that were once exercised looking for clever ways to elude God with sophisms, are now getting untwisted and learning how to champion the Lord. They don’t always get it right the first time. The bible has to be understood in the right general context, or fleshly wrangles result. But if they persist looking for truth, they eventually succeed more and more in finding something self consistent.
They should be outlawed.
The mexicans do it all over So. California and the road crews should just trash can them!
Ya that always gets skipped doesn’t it.
I drive that road every day. It is a part of a 8 mile stretch of country road that is a favorite of motorcyclists and bicylists. There have been dozens of deaths on that 8 mile strip of highway and there is at least one cross that has been there for 20 years that is still maintained by the grieving father of a young girl who was killed in a head on crash.
I don’t know why that suddenly these atheists are suddenly concerned about a private citizen planting a cross in the dirt next to a county road that in my opinion serves a public purpose in telling drivers that this nice quiet country road is a dangerous place to drive.
My guess is that one of those skinny liberal twerp bicyclists with the helmet mirror and the colorful faggy spandex bike outfits was shocked to see a cross while he was blocking traffic thinking he owned the whole freaking road and got pissed when he had to look at a symbol of Christianity while he and his gay bike butt buddies were busy blocking traffic and called the Atheists group to complain.
I think next time I go that way I might plant my own cross in the dirt.
It takes a lot of money and energy and these jackals target low hanging fruit.
“These memorials ar all over the public roads around here. They are taken down after a while by the hwy department because they are eyesores and I personally find them in disgustingly poor taste. Cross/star of David / whatever. I find them in questionable taste as I do the etched glass or decal memorials on the rear windows of cars.
Memorials should be in your heart, not the mean streets nor the back windows of cars that will rust and be crushed
If the memorial was on their property I wish them well. If it was just on the side of a public road, I say no.”
Your opinion only. Doesn’t mean that everyone else agrees, nor should they have to obey your wishes or anyone
elses. These are public roads and right-of-ways, and belong to all taxpayers.
“Such a shrine, if it was made necessary by careless driving or drunk driving, can be useful to get people to think. “
I often use locations where a lot of these shrines are present as indicators that the area might be a bit hazardous, and ratchet up my defensive driving and traffic awareness.
Mean of them.
I hear you, my FRiend.
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