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September 11, 2004
Sep. 12th, 2004 12:42 pmSo I just found out that yesterday was the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. May all religions fade away. It's too bad that we usually only hear Americans talking about how the highjackers' motive was hate and greed. That's nonsense. Their crime was a faith crime. Religion launched faith-based missiles against the symbols of the secular world. The churches in this country don't want to think about what they have in common with Al Qaeda supporters-- the sin of faith. Granted, there's a tremendous difference in degree, but not a difference in kind.
I was at the credit union service center branch on the morning of September 11, 2001, and overheard somebody saying, "there was a terrorist attack this morning. I think they flew some planes into some buildings or something." I remember hoping, at the time, that it would be covered on the news because I was curious if it was really so similar to Jerry Bruckheimer movies. By the time I got to work the radio had given me the answer to my question. My employment was in a church at that time, and the pastor got me started on making a quick handout for an impromptu prayer service. We set up a TV and watched the footage of the attacks. I remember delivering the handout to the sanctuary and being surprised at how many had shown up that afternoon. I knew that they could not all have known someone who had died, so I wondered why they needed emotional comfort. A thousand people are violently killed every day, just like what's happening now in Sudan. To me the 9/11 crisis had lasted about two hours and we had clearly never been in personal danger. Little did I know the real personal danger to result from September 11 would unfold in our own political system here at home.
I was at the credit union service center branch on the morning of September 11, 2001, and overheard somebody saying, "there was a terrorist attack this morning. I think they flew some planes into some buildings or something." I remember hoping, at the time, that it would be covered on the news because I was curious if it was really so similar to Jerry Bruckheimer movies. By the time I got to work the radio had given me the answer to my question. My employment was in a church at that time, and the pastor got me started on making a quick handout for an impromptu prayer service. We set up a TV and watched the footage of the attacks. I remember delivering the handout to the sanctuary and being surprised at how many had shown up that afternoon. I knew that they could not all have known someone who had died, so I wondered why they needed emotional comfort. A thousand people are violently killed every day, just like what's happening now in Sudan. To me the 9/11 crisis had lasted about two hours and we had clearly never been in personal danger. Little did I know the real personal danger to result from September 11 would unfold in our own political system here at home.
