9/11 wasn't a Christian
tragedy, nor was it just an American tragedy. 3500 people, Muslims,
Christians, Jews and Atheists from all over the world, died when a small
group of extremists gave up and turned to violence, in an effort to
traumatize an entire nation.
It is utterly ridiculous to me to think that amidst all of this violence, destruction and death, amidst the dozens of people who committed suicide by jumping to their deaths, that the god of Christianity saw fit to make his presence known by welding together two pieces of steel. Not by stopping the planes, the collapse of the towers or waiting until everyone had been safely evacuated.
Instead, and with a complete lack of sensitivity to all of the non-Christians who were killed, he made a metal sculpture.
All of the insensitivity and absurdity aside, this is incredibly divisive because it only encourages the narrow minded ideas that A) Christianity is a necessary part of the American identity, and B) Islam and Christianity are entirely incompatible because apparently individual human beings are inseparable from the wide range of beliefs attached to a particular label that they may claim.
It is entirely unsurprising that the same people who think Al-Qaeda is representative of all Muslims would also have the sort of childish pareidolia looking at two pieces of metal melted together at a right angle, while dismissing any notion that the WBC and KKK are equally representative of all Christians.
If it had been a Christian church, or a solely-Christian gathering, I would feel differently, but it wasn't. To me, that self-entitled ignorance which fuels the dehumanization and discrimination of every minority group, that fearfully and angrily searches for differences instead of similarities, is what that cross really represents.
It is utterly ridiculous to me to think that amidst all of this violence, destruction and death, amidst the dozens of people who committed suicide by jumping to their deaths, that the god of Christianity saw fit to make his presence known by welding together two pieces of steel. Not by stopping the planes, the collapse of the towers or waiting until everyone had been safely evacuated.
Instead, and with a complete lack of sensitivity to all of the non-Christians who were killed, he made a metal sculpture.
All of the insensitivity and absurdity aside, this is incredibly divisive because it only encourages the narrow minded ideas that A) Christianity is a necessary part of the American identity, and B) Islam and Christianity are entirely incompatible because apparently individual human beings are inseparable from the wide range of beliefs attached to a particular label that they may claim.
It is entirely unsurprising that the same people who think Al-Qaeda is representative of all Muslims would also have the sort of childish pareidolia looking at two pieces of metal melted together at a right angle, while dismissing any notion that the WBC and KKK are equally representative of all Christians.
If it had been a Christian church, or a solely-Christian gathering, I would feel differently, but it wasn't. To me, that self-entitled ignorance which fuels the dehumanization and discrimination of every minority group, that fearfully and angrily searches for differences instead of similarities, is what that cross really represents.
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