Steel cross from the WTC installed in PA.

And anyone on that flight, or anyone in the WTC or the Pentagon who died on 9/11 who was not Christian -  who either practiced another religion or no religion at all - will forever be lumped, with no say in the matter, into the majority with this Christian symbol erected in their name.

And the imagery of a cross resting on a model Pentagon is simply too obvious to miss:  we are a nation of “Soldiers of Christ.”

This is something I complain about often, so please forgive me for repeating myself.  But the Christian majority cannot be excused for this kind of quasi-fascistic behavior (imposing their beliefs upon others even in death) simply because they are the majority and they just don’t think about anyone outside of their group.

In the end, I know it’s not even really their fault.  Except that, of course, it is.  Our culture may be monolithic and narrow-minded, but that is still no excuse when we each have our own, independent minds with which to reason and act independently.

I’m not against 9/11 memorials, I’m just tired of the Christian majority insisting that their religion permeate everything, even the memorials of others outside their group.  There are plenty of good ways to use the steel from the WTC, but calling a structurally necessary ninety-degree angle formed by two steel beams a “cross” just shows that the planners of this unofficial memorial knew exactly what they were doing:  not honoring the dead, but proselytizing their religion.

This incident, along with the Democrats opening their convention with several faith caucuses (excluding atheists from discussions supposedly about ‘values,’ even though the non-religious almost always vote Democratic), are just some of the reasons why I have increasingly little patience for the giant wooly mammoth that is Christianity in America.

You just can’t get away from it, it insists upon being the center of attention, and it mindlessly tramples everything in its path.