Exactly what the question says. There was a “lively” debate going in an unrelated thread, so I thought I’d pose it to the whole community. Basically it was a debate about how they’re putting up a mosque near ground zero (two blocks away). Its become a Republican talking point and hot point issue lately, many people finding it insensitive and demanding/wanting/requesting that the mosque not be built so close to ground zero. The idea is, I guess, that its an insult to the victims and their families to build a monument of the Islamic religion, so close to a site where a group of terrorists killed so many people in the name of Islam.

So I ask you this. Lets imagine for a second that Al Queda didn’t carry out the attacks on 9/11. Lets imagine that instead of Islamic militants, it was Christian militants. This isn’t an entirely crazy idea either, considering the existence of groups like the KKK or that militia group that was arrested in Michigan earlier this year (Curatee?) So it was instead of Al Queda, 19 Christian militants who destroyed the World Trade towers killing thousands of people in the name of the Christian god (which btw is the same god as Islam and even Judaism, something most people don’t seem to know).

Would you find it insensitive and be opposed to someone deciding 10 years later to build a church two blocks from ground zero?