The Friendly Atheist, on when secularism gets too zealous:

There’s a special street sign going up in New York City to honor a group of firefighters who sacrificed their lives to save others on 9/11. Not only were they heroes, they were among the first firefighters to arrive on the scene that morning. There were seven of them and, after they died, they were collectively known as “Seven in Heaven.”

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*Facepalm*

That can’t be right… suing over *this*? It’s a PR disaster in the making.

As a hardline atheist (as in, I believe there is no evidence for a god, and vehemently oppose any attempt by states to endorse a religion) I genuinely don’t see the problem with them calling the road Seven in Heaven Way. Why bother suing? It’s only going to damage the public image of atheism in a strongly Puritan country.

Naming a street after the seven heroes who lost their lives during the atrocities of 9/11 is a lovely gesture, and it astonishes me that NYC Atheists are even considering a lawsuit over this, when actual church/state separation violations are far more worthy of their attention than the name of a sodding street.