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Banning Crosses, Erasing History

Bob210 Wrote: May 16, 2012 8:55 PM
"... (atheist) brains aren't bound by restricted thought" ------------------------- Nor are they bound by any kind of morality. As an agnostic, I'd MUCH rather deal with a religious person than with an amoral one.

A simmering controversy surrounding the "Ground Zero Cross" exposes the intolerance and absolutism behind ongoing battles over religious symbols on public property. Contrary to popular belief, it's not Christian conservatives who normally start these bitter disputes. It's more often atheist activists who seek to alter the long-standing status quo by scrubbing the landscape of the most visible signs of the nation's religious heritage.

American Atheists, an organization representing the civil liberties of agnostics, filed suit in 2011 to block display of the Ground Zero Cross anywhere on the grounds of the new memorial museum planned for the World Trade Center site....