Quote Originally Posted by denuseri View Post
Lets call it having faith that no one will kncok them down again perhaps...setting the example that despite the violence of others that somewhere somehow people can rebuild.
I will grant the belief that people can rebuild. As for having faith that no one will knock them down again, sorry, I won't go that far. There's always at least one nut out there who will take it as his personal mission to screw things up.

They could be shrines as opposed to full fledge temples.
Still, a lot of shrines, if you intend to represent every faith.

But no way can you equate science with faith.
Um sorry to burst your bubble sunshine but I just did..and do...all the time in fact. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like one...well then...to me its a duck just like all the others.
Then perhaps you can explain to me how science walks and sounds like religion.

Science is a study of reality.
Wow, it just so happens that religion involves a lot of that too.
Not even close! Religion is a study in wishful thinking, at best.

Sounds just like how the congregation of any paticular faith "trusts" in the tennents of it's way and the word of those who went before them.
The difference is that the scientists have evidence and experimental validation, verified by other scientists, and usually predictions based upon their evidence and experiments. All reproducible by others, if they are willing to take the time to study and learn. Religion has no evidence, no verification, no reproducibility. It's speculation and snake oil, in roughly equal measures.

Oh yes,,, back to the ducks I see...faith in a lack of somthing is faith all the same.
Sorry, I have to disagree. A faith in the lack of something (which is NOT atheism) is not equivalent to a lack of faith in something (which IS atheism). As an atheist I don't say, "I believe there are no gods." Rather I say, "There is no evidence for gods, therefore belief in gods is not justified." Show me valid, reproducible, reasonably incontrovertible evidence for gods and I will change my position.

The memorial will be devoted to peace (not to vehment anti-religos slogans that are by their very nature bellicose and unproductive to the institution of said peace), as will all of the temples of all of the faiths...to show that despite what one's beliefs are, (even if its to believe in not believeing or to only believe in what one thinks science can prove or not etc) that one should not resort to violence or extremism.
A noble cause, to be sure. And if it ever came to be I would be very surprised if some fundamentalist, of any stripe, didn't try to destroy it within a year. Just for spite.