Athiests: Does religious icons annoy you?

Inspired by this piece from the Telegraph

A group of American Athiests have filed a lawsuit to remove a cross from downtown Manhattan and is a breach of separation of church and state, due to its status as an icon?

So, do you find religious icons unwanted or just ignore them?

I ignore old ones but would fight a new one that was in the process of being built on a public property with public money.

My viewpoint is similar to OneCentStamp's, in that I ignore the old ones but wouldn't like to see new ones built with public money on public property. This particular case is stupid and I find their objections more offensive than the cross. While the cross is a religious icon, it's also used quite widely as a marker for the dead and that particular cross (which is an accident of rubble) has become a symbol of the destruction itself. If someone was in the process of building a cross to put on the site, that would be something else entirely.

In what is truly a shocking turn of events, I agree with Zuul and OCS.

I have a hard time caring about religious symbols at memorial sites in general. It's not the same thing as, say, the 10 commandments in a courthouse (which I would definitely find inappropriate.)

I'm not an athiest, but I tend to agree with everyone. I don't mind any kind of religious display if it's historic, lots of places in the US have certain religions at the heart of their culture. Can't agree with using public money to erect new ones, though. Making a fuss about the thing at ground zero just seems petty.

Agnostic, don't really care. Like have Xmas and other Winter Solstice trappings in public building but more overtly religious stuff that Capitalism has not hijacked bother me a little.

I disagree with everyone!!

Well no, okay I don't, I just wanted to be different :(

To my confirmational-bias, selection-bias riddled mind, outrage over trivial crap is a religious trait. I don't appreciate atheists fighting from that angle, as it adds fuel to the "atheism is a religion" argument.

I don't really care. Partly out of tradition and partly out of kitch appropriation I'd hang a sacred heart picture in a house if I ever owned one.

Oh, I forgot, those spooky Jesus's eyes are following you pictures freak me out a little. But that is less about religion and more about squick.

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Heathen here.
It's just pettiness and should be ignored.