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Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap
I remember the controversy too, but I'm actually inclined to say that they left the gunmen's crosses up in the end. IIRC, the backlash was mainly from media-type people who weren't even students at Columbine or residents in Littlewood, and eventually it died down. It was interesting in the way the community immediately put up the crosses for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the wake of the tragedy, that the residents and students immediately began trying to forgive.
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I recall it differently.
Actually, it's Littleton, and the crosses were built and put up by an out-of-state man (from Pennsylvania, I think). Community reaction was immediate and heavily divided. The "media" had little to do with the controversy with the exception of reporting it. However, we're always a good scapegoat.
I won't pass judgement on either case, not being a Biblical scholar, but my understanding of the Divine being -- no matter what you may call him/her is of an all-loving, forgiving entity.
Whether others agree or disagree with that, and how they interpret what their response should be is up to them, I think.