Crosses on the Side of the Road

[MichaelFJF]

Perspective

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Looks about right

 

[Ampoliros]

Hooray for blatant misrepresentations !

 

[TScott]

Has there actually been a case where someone has complained about crosses on the side of the road?

That is really over the line.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

From the N&CE forum:

http://www.christianforums.com/t2372437-atheist-group-wants-memorial-crosses-removed.html

 

[MichaelFJF]

Has there actually been a case where someone has complained about crosses on the side of the road?

That is really over the line.

Oh yes - the reason for the editorial cartoon is the current lawsuit in Utah.

 

[AirPo]

Oh yes - the reason for the editorial cartoon is the current lawsuit in Utah.

And I'm sure there are plenty of billboards claiming "GOD IS DEAD!" in Utah as well.

 

[HouseApe]

Why should my tax dollars go to pay for Christian crosses? Would you want your tax dollars to pay for shrines to Apollo? Government shouldn't be in the business of religion or religious symbiology.

Note the Billboard in the OP. Atheists paid for their sign. They didn't ask taxpayers to do it for them. Christians should do the same.

 

[UberLutheran]

My question is: what if the person who died was Jewish? or Muslim? or Hindu? or an atheist?

If they're going to erect a monument of that sort, couldn't they do it at least according to the person's faith (or lack thereof)?

(The symbol I most like for non-theists on CF is the atom. I've never quite understood why atheists are represented by icons of a gray human head wearing a black helmet.)

 

[Ampoliros]

(The symbol I most like for non-theists on CF is the atom. I've never quite understood why atheists are represented by icons of a gray human head wearing a black helmet.)

Errm, its supposed to be a brain

Unless its indicative of the EAC, and all the black and stealthy things (wearing black helmets) we do.

 

[TScott]

(The symbol I most like for non-theists on CF is the atom. I've never quite understood why atheists are represented by icons of a gray human head wearing a black helmet.)

I always thought it was a grey head with a black brain inside.

 

[Maxwell511]

I always thought it was a grey head with a black brain inside.

I always thought that it implied that we had no brain.

 

[HouseApe]

I always thought that it implied that we had no brain.

I say we change it to a tinfoil hat!

 

[Maxwell511]

I say we change it to a tinfoil hat!

I'd go for that.

 

[MethodMan]

I always thought that it implied that we had no brain.

LOL I am glad you said it.

 

[JustOneWay]

I heard BOR talking with an opponent of the roadside crosses, and the opponent was more concerned with the crosses placed on public lands. The guy's case just seemed so weak frivolous, that I had to disagree. Family members mourn their departed loved ones, where is the harm putting a cross on the side of the road? I see them all over in my part of the country,

 

[Maxwell511]

I heard BOR talking with an opponent of the roadside crosses, and the opponent was more concerned with the crosses placed on public lands. The guy's case just seemed so weak frivolous, that I had to disagree. Family members mourn their departed loved ones, where is the harm putting a cross on the side of the road? I see them all over in my part of the country,

To be honest I don't see the problem either.

 

[AirPo]

I heard BOR talking with an opponent of the roadside crosses, and the opponent was more concerned with the crosses placed on public lands. The guy's case just seemed so weak frivolous, that I had to disagree. Family members mourn their departed loved ones, where is the harm putting a cross on the side of the road? I see them all over in my part of the country,

Putting them there is not the problem. Paying for them with taxpayer money is.

 

[JustOneWay]

Putting them there is not the problem. Paying for them with taxpayer money is.

I never saw an article for this thread. Is that the issue? Taxpayer money paid for crosses in Arlington Cemetery, is that different?

We can pay for needles for herion addicts, but not a cross?

 

[MethodMan]

To be honest I don't see the problem either.

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Rivers said the purpose of the suit is to eliminate religious symbols used by government agencies and placed on government land. American Atheists claim to have a membership of 30 million people. They are not opposed to memorials, just the crosses.