Maybe If the Building Fell in the Shape of a Swastika

Find the source for this post at the Associated Press:

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A judge has finally seen the light and tossed out an insane lawsuit brought by a group calling itself American Atheists against the display of a cross-shaped steel beam found among the rubble of the World Trade Center. Naturally the atheists claimed that allowing the beam to stand amounted to a governmental sanction of Christianity, and thus (according to them) a violation of the Constitution. 

What could possibly be wrong with their claim? Plenty.

Aside from the simple fact that the Constitution guarantees freedom of (not from) the free exercise of religion, no where are the atheists promised the right not to have their feelings hurt. But I digress. 

The real idiocy of the lawsuit lies in the fact that no one (except God) created the cross in question. It exists because that's the way the building fell down. 

"What?" you say.  

That's right. 

The cross is not and was not the brain-child of some enterprising rescue workers. It is a cross section of girders that remained in place after the rest of the building around it collapsed. Rescue workers -hardly flaming evangelists - treated the crude remains with reverence because of their task in locating survivors and the remains of victims. 

The American Atheists and their supporters, ever vigilant to take offense, couldn't wait to get their dander up the instant their collective imagination told them the standing beams resembled something ever so faintly religious. The judge had better sense.

"No reasonable observer would view the artifact as endorsing Christianity," the judge said.

Ah, there's the difference - "reasonable."

Maybe if the World Trade Center had fallen into the shape of a swastika, the atheists would have been happy.