Searching for survivors amid the rubble that was the World Trade Center, workers 10 years ago unearthed two steel beams joined together at right angles. The 17-foot cross ”” to some, a sign of comfort and faith in the most nightmarish of times ”” became part of the story of New York City’s recovery from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. To omit it from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum ”” as a misguided lawsuit seeks to do ”” is tantamount to ripping out a page of history.
It’s too bad the atheists don’t have their own symbols that mean something to them in the midst of a crisis. I would rather have a positive competition on the merits of each worldview instead of this silly censorship game.
#1–Whadda ya mean? We had a family of agnostics in our town. To run them off we burned a giant question mark in their front yard. (For some of you more literal readers of Titus 19–this is what is called a “joke”. I stole it from Garrison Keeler).
OOPS–make that Garrison Keillor.
Maybe they can give it to a Church that wants it?