Editing Zion, Illinois (section)

== Controversy ==
[[File:Flat earthers in Zion City 01.jpg|thumb|Flat Earth sign by Flat Earth theorist [[Wilbur Glenn Voliva]]]]
[[File:Zion Industries at Shiloh Tabernacle, July 1904, Zion City, Ill LCCN2007664079 (cropped).tif|thumb|Zion Industries at Shiloh Tabernacle, July 1904, Zion City, Illinois]]
Until the 1940s, Zion enshrined the [[Flat Earth]] doctrine in its religious code.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/looking-for-life-on-a-flat-earth|title=Looking for Life on a Flat Earth|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref>
[[File:Man pouring two bottles of beer into trough into the sewer system during Prohibition in 1921, detail, from- Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer LCCN88715937 (cropped).tif|thumb|Man pouring two bottles of beer into trough into the sewer system during Prohibition in 1921, detail, from- Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer]]
[[Seal of Zion, Illinois|The former city seal]] was the subject of a 1990 [[Federal judiciary of the United States|Federal Court]] case, because it featured a crown and scepter, a [[Christian symbolism#Dove|dove]], a [[Christian cross|cross]] and the words "God Reigns". The founder of Zion and designer of the city seal, [[John Alexander Dowie]], intended for these to be Christian symbols and added them "for the purpose of the extension of the Kingdom of God upon earth ... where God shall rule in every department of family, industry, commercial, educational, ecclesiastical and political life".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/729/1242/1493042/|title=Harris v. City of Zion, 729 F. Supp. 1242 (N.D. Ill. 1990)|website=Justia|access-date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> The court ruled the city could not use these religious symbols in its seals and emblems. While the Christian symbolism was removed, the phrase "In God We Trust" could be used on the new city seal since it was already acceptable religious language in the public arena.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1399.html|chapter=Zion, IL|access-date=November 19, 2019|title=Encyclopedia of Chicago|date=2004}}</ref>