American Atheists is sort of the nonbeliever counterpart to the Southern Baptist Convention — a bunch of fruitcakes who have managed to cement a number of stereotypes about atheists through their actions.
This time around they’re angry that proposals for a 9/11 memorial might include a “cross.” Okay, it’s not really a cross. It’s just a couple of steel beams that happened by chance to be joined in a cross-like configuration. But the born again rescue worker who found it thought it was God speaking to him (what? God couldn’t have found a better way to make a cross than to bring down two of the world’s biggest buildings? Please).
Personally I couldn’t care either way if they put this “cross” up at a 9/11 memorial, but for the American Atheists, even a whiff of religion in the public sphere is the second coming of the Inquisition.
These are the same idiots who want the inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetary removed because it reads, “Here lies in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.”
And I still chuckle over the AA’s opposition to a New Jersey law that would have required school children to recite daily two of the most beautiful sentences ever written in English,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
Certainly a much better use of one’s time to memorize that than to obssess about Star Jones. Sheesh.