Comments on: Eternal Soledad Cross Controversy http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/06/29/eternal-soledad-cross-controversy/ Craigslist San Diego County, Chargers, Local News, Etc Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:16:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TAPKAE http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/06/29/eternal-soledad-cross-controversy/#comment-837 TAPKAE Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:39:57 +0000 http://sandiegoblog.com/archives/2004/06/29/eternal-soledad-cross-controversy/#comment-837 I think the church/state issue is way out of proportion here. I think the cross should stay because it is a trusted landmark and symbol in SD. I live in Clairemont and see that cross and think, "there is La Jolla." If we want to go stripping SD of its Christian underpinnings, then lets change the city name too. Saint Diego should now be "East Pacific City" or some equally absurd name. Oh, then we should rename Mission Beach, Mission Valley, and any of a number of names that speak of our Christian roots. But really... people are all wound up about a CROSS? A symbol of a 2000 years dead man who taught that we should love each other? Can I ask what the redeeming value of billboards, bus stop posters (and indeed the buses in the vinyl ads wrapped like a skin), and all the other paraphernalia that is a celebration of the new and far more destructive and insidious religion we know as... capitalism? Why is no one crying out for what a fuggin' eyesore all of Mission Valley is, a total abortion of a civic design? Or how about the suburban disaster that is all of Linda Vista? The symbols of corporations, greed, and profits-at-any-cost are the ones that offend me, but the city rolls over in the face of all that. But then, so do perhaps 99% of the citizens, for whom there is no issue. Hey, at least Jesus has a historical significance, but pray tell, what is the significance of all the McDogfood's and Wal Marts and ARCOs? When did any of these entities ever espouse anything remotely like Jesus? Why do their symbols get to run wild all over this town, and every other one in the nation, while the ACLU gets called in to put its muscle behind a cross in question? I am a card carrying member of the ACLU, but this is small potatoes compared to the damage that the apparent LACK of separation between corporation and state has done. The church is pretty innocuous these days. Keep your eye on the real force of civil rights being trampled upon--the power of the corporations to come and go at will, contribute as little as possible, and do absolutely anything they want, almost never in the interest of the very locale which plays host to it. Thank you. I think the church/state issue is way out of proportion here. I think the cross should stay because it is a trusted landmark and symbol in SD. I live in Clairemont and see that cross and think, “there is La Jolla.” If we want to go stripping SD of its Christian underpinnings, then lets change the city name too. Saint Diego should now be “East Pacific City” or some equally absurd name. Oh, then we should rename Mission Beach, Mission Valley, and any of a number of names that speak of our Christian roots.

But really… people are all wound up about a CROSS? A symbol of a 2000 years dead man who taught that we should love each other? Can I ask what the redeeming value of billboards, bus stop posters (and indeed the buses in the vinyl ads wrapped like a skin), and all the other paraphernalia that is a celebration of the new and far more destructive and insidious religion we know as… capitalism? Why is no one crying out for what a fuggin’ eyesore all of Mission Valley is, a total abortion of a civic design? Or how about the suburban disaster that is all of Linda Vista? The symbols of corporations, greed, and profits-at-any-cost are the ones that offend me, but the city rolls over in the face of all that. But then, so do perhaps 99% of the citizens, for whom there is no issue. Hey, at least Jesus has a historical significance, but pray tell, what is the significance of all the McDogfood’s and Wal Marts and ARCOs? When did any of these entities ever espouse anything remotely like Jesus? Why do their symbols get to run wild all over this town, and every other one in the nation, while the ACLU gets called in to put its muscle behind a cross in question? I am a card carrying member of the ACLU, but this is small potatoes compared to the damage that the apparent LACK of separation between corporation and state has done. The church is pretty innocuous these days. Keep your eye on the real force of civil rights being trampled upon–the power of the corporations to come and go at will, contribute as little as possible, and do absolutely anything they want, almost never in the interest of the very locale which plays host to it.

Thank you.

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