How about no houses of worship of ANY kind within a mile of 'ground zero'?

[Philosoraptor]

Huh? How bout that huh? No mosques, no synagogues, no Baptist or Methodist or Catholic churches anywhere near 'ground zero'? Then everyone would be happy huh? How bout that huh?

[rucky]

1. A gift shop, on the other hand...

[uncommon]

2. Temple of Capitalism lol

[Philosoraptor]

7. Or a nice brothel....

[eleny]

3. Well, the area is already a place for worshipping money

That pretty much squeezes out all other faiths in the long run.

edit for spelling, sheesh.

[Philosoraptor]

5. I pray for money a lot, but my faith apparently isn't strong enough

[LanternWaste]

9. I asked my parents for space ships a lot...

I asked my parents for space ships a lot when I was growing up, apparently I didn't ask strongly enough.

[eleny]

11. Ya gotta pray *to* the money...

[JustAnotherGen]

4. In agreement

Either all are excluded - or ALL are included.

[Warpy]

6. The Catholics would be incredibly upset at having their cathedral razed

They, at least, would find a small Islamic community center out of sight of the former WTC area a small price to pay to keep it.

[tridim]

8. Just raze all of Manhattan and pave it flat.

It's the only way to make everyone happy.

:sarcasm:

[annabanana]

25. Sell it back to the Native Americans... $24 in beads...n/t

[Ezlivin]

10. You had me at "no houses of worship"

If you'd stopped there that would have been fine.

[Philosoraptor]

14. I WOULD however support an FSM temple

[Ezlivin]

18. Naturally.

None greater than the FSM.

[Philosoraptor]

19. praise his holy tentacles

[elleng]

12. First, 'Everyone' will NEVER be happy, second, too late!

As Warpy posted, 'Catholics would be incredibly upset at having their cathedral razed.'

[Taverner]

13. The Christianists want to take over 'Murica!

[kwassa]

15. Trinity Wall Street

A very historical Episcopal church located you-know-where.

Founded in 1696.

http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/history/timeline

[Fumesucker]

16. Make it 8,000 miles and I'm down with it.. n/t

[Barack2theFuture]

17. or banks

and make it 5000 miles.

And definitely no Catholic churches ANYWHERE NEAR a grade school. It would insult the victims of priest pedophelia.

[MerryBlooms]

20. Entirely too logical, it'd never fly. :-(

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. There is already a small mosque that's been there

for decades.

Me personally, I prefer that thing about separation of church and state and NOT letting OBL get that victory. But that is just me.

We have had these issues with other religions over the years. This too shall pass...

[librechik]

22. "Imagine" That!

"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one..."

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/john_lennon/#share

[Canuckistanian]

23. And if that works out, maybe it can be expanded to TWO miles

Etc, etc...

[frebrd]

24. Now that would be some kind of progress! eom

Edited for spelling.

:(

[AnArmyVeteran]

26. How about 10 mile religious free zones from every landmark?

Gave a tem mile religious ban from any statue, monument, shrine, museum or ground zero in the US and any bookstore would be stoned (just to keep the punishment Biblical). Yeah it's ridiculous, but so is the controversy over the damned mosque. I wonder when mankind will be able to climb out of it's primitive past?

[Philosoraptor]

27. They'll stone ya and then they'll say 'good luck'. Bob Dylan

[mwb970]

28. The KKK was explicitly Christian, was it not?

After so many lynchings and cross burnings, no Christian churches should be allowed anywhere in the South. Think of the victims!

[Festivito]

29. Oh boy, more of that evangelical atheism showing up. /nt