Mt. Soledad cross ordered to be taken down

[Polaris]

Is this really any different than the Taliban destroying Buddhist monuments in Afghanistan?

I really have to wonder if you're serious, or if you're being a troll.

Just echoing a point of both rational atheists and the Moslem spiritual leaders who lambasted the Taliban.

The rational atheist view is "it's been here for many years and atheists for decades did not have a problem with it, so I won't be a dick and take issue but I will push that they won't erect new religious monuments on tax dollars hence forth." For all the talk about people saying these momuments waste tax dollars, how many have they wasted debating it just like the Republican Congress with their anti-Obamcare attempts...

The spiritual leaders likewise held the same point that "yes, even though these Buddhist movements were not of the Book, that since believers centuries before them had not destroyed them, what gave these Taliban extremists the right to destroy them?"