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New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 3:59 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/21/new...11victims/
Is is very much an anti atheist piece by fox news.
Quote:City leaders seemed dumbfounded by the atheists’ outrage because no one complained about the sign as it was going through a public approval process. “It’s unfortunate that they didn’t raise this as an issue while it was undergoing its public review either at the community board level or when it came before the City Council on their public agenda,” said Craig Hammerman, the district manager for Brooklyn Community Board 6.
Hammerman told Fox News Radio that the community was “solidly behind this proposal. Not a single person stood up to speak out against it. I think it’s a little late in the process for someone to be bringing this up now.”
“When you think you’ve heard it all, you haven’t,” Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz told Fox News Radio. “These seven brave souls who put their lives on the line and ultimately gave up the most precious gift that could be given, believe me are in heaven for serving us so admirably,” he said.
They'll be mobs with pitch forks after us soon.
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 4:17 pm
'believe me'
That's how all this shit started.
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 4:31 pm
This will be more fuel for the 'attack on christian values' argument. Of course, if Islam had a different name for heaven and someone wanted to put that on a street sign, they would be incensed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 6:35 pm
The NY atheists are right. There is no justification for grafting superstitious nonsense onto a memorial for people killed whilst doing their job. The memorial would lose no potency by being secular in nature.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Were the cops who died all Christian? We'll never know for sure.
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 9:12 pm
I don't know if I'd get upset about it, but it's pretty damn tacky if you ask me.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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RE: New York Atheists Angry Over 'Heaven' Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims
June 21, 2011 at 9:16 pm
If heaven is in New York, where is hell? New Jersey? BA-Zing!!!!
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