Atheists continue battle against World Trade Center cross at memorial

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63. Look, the murderers didn't attack Christians on 9/11, they attacked Americans.

Christians are already included in any memorial because of their shared humanity. Along with any atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, black people, Asian people, Muslims, veterans, tourists, Republicans, Democrats and anyone else who died.

I happen to spend my days in a wheelchair - if I had been in the US on vacation on that day and died at the WTC, my family wouldn't be insisting that this symbol:



should be displayed to stand for everyone who died.

Over here in the UK on 9/11 the intense wave of public feeling wasn't for "all those poor Christians who were killed", it was for "all those poor people who were killed"

To presume that the cross stands for everyone who died is the height of arrogance and, quite frankly, cheapens the whole thing. It's the last place that religious arrogance should be displayed, considering that it was some other culture's religious arrogance that caused the disaster in the first place.