Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
I think they should re-build the Towers there and make the bottom two floors a memorial center in each building and surround them with temples of all faiths; even the faiths of science and the faith of having no faith should be involved.
Okay, I can go along with rebuilding the towers, though I don't know why you would want to, except just for spite. I can even go along with the memorial center, surrounded by temples of all faiths. (That would be a LOT of temples, though.) But no way can you equate science with faith. Science is a study of reality. No faith involved. There's a certain amount of trust, perhaps. I trust that those scientists who have passed muster with other scientists, and whose research has been validated by still other scientists, are probably right as far as we can know at the time. But there's no faith at all.

And what is "the faith of having no faith" supposed to mean? It's a contradiction. IF you are referring to atheism, or even agnosticism, then I have to point out that there's no faith involved there, either. It's a LACK of faith! A LACK of belief. I do NOT have a belief that there are no gods. I just do not have any belief in gods. A subtle but meaningful difference.

As for your temples, therefore, we don't need one for "the faith of having no faith", since there are no atheist temples. No one would come to them anyway. There are more productive ways to make use of a Sunday. And if you have to associate a temple with science, make it a museum, one devoted to the lunacy and irrationality of belief in superstitions. And the even greater lunacies, and irrationalities, of killing and dying for those superstitions.