1 /5 Andrew I.: This review isn’t about faith—it’s about power. The massive cross that looms over this area is not a symbol of welcome or community. It’s an imposition. Its size isn’t about reverence; it’s about visibility, dominance, and control.
For Christians, it might feel like a statement of devotion. But for anyone outside that faith, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, atheists, and others it sends a very different message: this place is not for you. It’s hard to experience that cross as anything but a territorial marker, especially in a diverse community. Its presence reduces pluralism to tolerance at best, erasure at worst.
Structures like this don’t arise from humility. They rise from the same cultural entitlement that has long used religion to marginalize others—through policy, violence, and silence.
Faith doesn’t need to tower over neighborhoods.
If it’s real, it meets people eye-to-eye.