Posted on 09/10/2003 11:54:15 AM PDT by DiamondDon1
DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Atheists still fighting against WTC cross Group calls symbol an 'insult' to non-Christians
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Just shy of the two-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, an atheist organization is once again warning against using a steel-beam cross at the site of the World Trade Center disaster from being used in a permanent memorial to the victims who died there.
"Many people who died on Sept. 11 weren't Christian. There were Jews, Muslims and atheists who died," Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, told the Trentonian newspaper. "This is a Christian religious advertisement, and allowing it to stay there is an insult to everyone who doesn't believe in that particular religion."
As WorldNetDaily reported, last year, the organization first spoke out about the issue after Ed Malloy, a board member of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, asked that the cross be made a permanent part of any future memorial.
The WTC cross on the cover of the December 2001 issue of Whistleblower magazine.
The atheists said use of the cross in a government-funded monument "would violate the separation of church and state, be insensitive to those victims who had no religious beliefs and would incredibly pay homage to religion – the prime motivating factor in the faith-based attack of Sept. 11."
The Associated Press reports Johnson and her group, founded by the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair, is considering a lawsuit to prevent the cross from becoming part of any permanent memorial.
Construction worker Frank Silecchia happened upon the perfectly symmetrical cross in the midst of the WTC wreckage just a few days after the attacks. It was standing straight, 20-feet high, surrounded by many smaller crosses.
"When I first saw it, it took my heart," Silecchia said. "It helped me heal the burden of my despair, and gave me closure on the whole catastrophe."
After the cross was discovered, construction workers, firefighters, police officers and family members began holding weekly Sunday services at the site.
The names of fallen police officers and firefighters were also scribbled on the cross, along with the message "May God forgive their evil," reported AP.
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency overseeing the rebuilding of the area, has made no decisions on what a Ground Zero memorial would include.
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We MUST NOT let the travesty below take place.
According to an article today at WorldNetDaily.com, with the upcoming 2-year anniversary of the deadly 9/11 attacks, "an atheist organization is once again warning against using a steel-beam cross at the site of the World Trade Center disaster from being used in a permanent memorial to the victims who died there."
The organization American Atheists (founded by the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair) is protesting a proposal to use a large steel cross found in the rubble of the World Trade Center in a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
We all remember that cross. A construction worker came across it in the midst of the WTC wreckage just a few days after the attacks. It was standing straight, 20-feet high, surrounded by many smaller crosses. After it was discovered, construction workers, firefighters, police officers and family members began holding weekly Sunday services at the site.
The names of fallen police officers and firefighters were also scribbled on the cross, along with the message "God Bless Our Fallen Brothers".
And now, this group of atheists is threatening a lawsuit to prevent the cross from becoming part of any permanent memorial.
You and I can help to stop their assault by signing ConservativeAlerts.com's online petition.
ACTION ITEM: The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency overseeing the rebuilding of the area, has made no decisions on what a Ground Zero memorial would include.
There's still time for hundreds of thousands of people to voice their opinion, that the "Ground Zero Cross" should remain as part of any future memorial to the WTC victims.
Go to our site below to sign the "Ground Zero Cross" petition NOW:
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DD
(But it seems worthy. I signed.)
Sure, there were Muslims who died. They were the ones flying the planes into the WTC.
I wonder if the atheists who died prayed to God in their final moments?
Maybe the brethren of those 'Many People' should have sifted through the rubble for a 'Star of David', 'Crescent Moon' or 'Likeness of Darwin'.
The fact that they failed to do so, doesn't mean the Christian dead don't deserve their fortuitous 'miracle of hope'.
Thank you for the heads up...
DD
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