The atheists sue… for what?

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The first time I saw the rubble at Ground Zero, I remember thinking, there’s your memorial. There was a 50 foot section of the facade that had fallen askew, and I remember thinking, ‘just rope off a section of that and save it as-is, like the Hiroshima memorial in Japan.’

But it was all trucked off to Staten Island to be recycled…save for the cross, the 17 foot fragment that many of the workers at the site adopted as a sign of God’s presence and a symbol of hope.

Last week, the cross was moved from a nearby Catholic Church to the official memorial site, where construction workers joined hands to pray in front of it. And seeing that, a New Jersey group called American Atheists promptly sued, saying the cross is a symbol of Christianity and to display it at a government memorial violates the Constitution. Moreover, four atheists complained of dyspepsia, symptoms of depression, headaches, anxiety, and mental pain and anguish because they feel officially excluded.

Who’s right. One law professor argued that the cross would probably be constitutional if the exhibit focused on it as a piece of wreckage that has been assigned a symbolic meaning, a historical artifact as opposed to a religious relic intended to be revered.

But David Silverman, president of American Atheists, doesn’t buy it; he wants it either removed, or flanked by other religious symbols.

The thing is, you are simply not going to find other religious symbols in wreckage. No Islamic crescent, no Star of David.

I would submit that if Atheists are looking for justification that there is no God… just look at what happened on that day. That should be plenty.