Huckabee and the Cross

What's the big deal with this so-called cross? Truth be told, I wouldn't have noticed it unless someone pointed it out to me.

Sort of like all those people with no lives who claim to see images of penises looking frame-by-frame at Disney animations, or claim that if you play a Metallica record backwards it contains Satanic incantations.

Human beings are notoriously adept at pattern recognition, and seeing symbolism where there is none.

Consider the "cross" found at the WTC site. Two huge buildings, and how are they constructed? Vertical studs with crossbeams going across, fastened where they cross. Gee, do you think if the buildings fell down there's some slight chance that two pieces could be sheared off but still stuck together like so? Now, if the building fell and the steel beams mangled themselves into a perfect Star of David, or a Hammer and Sickle, that would be newsworthy.

Besides, the controversy only draws more attention to the ad and those who are inclined to support Huckabee will only be drawn to him in greater numbers. The guy's a rabid social conservative; I know this from the things he says, not from some fake "cross" in one of his commercials.