NEW YORK (WordNews.org) Sept. 11, 2012 – Eleven years after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, the 17-foot, relic cross found in the midst of the rubble at ground zero is the center of a lawsuit filed by the American Atheists Foundation.
Liberty Counsel says the suit complains of unequal representation.
The cross was dedicated to the World Trade Center Memorial. When it was found amid the debris, workers and volunteers said the cross was a hopeful sign and brought comfort to those who had lost loved ones in the terrorist attack.
The president of American Atheists, David Silverman, contends that atheists are experiencing horrible physical reactions after seeing the rubble cross, such as “inter alia, dyspepsia, symptoms of depression, headaches, anxiety, and mental pain and anguish,” Liberty Counsel said, citing the suit.
The atheists claim that the cross makes them “feel officially excluded from the ranks of citizens who were directly injured by the 9/11 attack.”
“Atheists groups would like to see a total collapse of the free exercise of religion in America,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “The cross is a symbol of hope amidst the total destruction at Ground Zero. The lawsuit is further evidence of the war on Christianity in America. The 9/11 cross survived the terrorist attack by Muslim extremists, and it will survive the cultural attack by radical secularists.”