On mirrors that shouldn't be offensive

Flipping through The Herald Dispatch this morning while eating my Cheerios (prior to a day of suck-tacular studying) I ran across this story, which I just had to write about because there is a line in it that is so ridiculous.

Mirror with religious message replaces Jesus painting at school

There's been a debate for months over a painting of Jesus that hangs in a high school in Bridgeport, West Virginia, and the painting was recently stolen. So students at the school replaced the painting with a mirror, which bears the inscription: "... to know the will of God is the highest of all wisdoms, the love of Jesus Christ lives within all of us." Of course, "civil liberties" groups are wigging out. This is the ridiculous quote, which isn't in the linked article but is in the newspaper, from Barry Lynn, executive directory for Americans United for Separation for Church and State:

"When you look in the mirror and are told that the love of Jesus Christ is within you, it really is a slap in the face to those with alternative religious beliefs."

First of all, Jesus Christ is not within you unless you have accepted Him as Savior, but that's beside the point. How on earth is "the love of Jesus Christ is within you" an offensive statement - much less a "slap in the face"? If you are not a Christian, and your religion recognizes Jesus Christ as a prophet or teacher or another human figure, then what harm is it to be told that His love is in you? And if your religion doesn't recognize Christ at all, then to read that His love is in you - can't you just dismiss that as an untrue statement? If I had to walk past something every day that said that the love of Allah was in me, I'd just think, "Okay, except that my God is not Allah" and go about my business. I can't imagine calling up a band of lawyers to demand that the words be removed so that I wouldn't have to see them anymore.

I just don't understand people who choose to be annoyed and offended by absolutely everything. And I hope that mirror hangs in Bridgeport for a hundred years, and that it may pique the curiosity of just one student, who may then ask a Christian classmate about Christ, and hear the Gospel message and be saved. Amen.

And as a side note, every mirror I look into offends me - I'm like, "Make that thing go away!" and then I realize it's me that I see. :-)