From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu 05 Dec 2002 - 04:57:22 GMT
On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 11:18 PM,
joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Good one, Wade. You might also enjoy this one:
> The Men Who Would Be Orwell
> by Ron Rosenbaum
>
> http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=5326
Aye, lovely stuff-
"In other words, it may not be enough to attribute Sept. 11 to
easily dismissible “religious fanaticism.” It may be necessary
instead to question whether religion itself— the kind of
religion that bases itself on supposedly inerrant holy texts— is
responsible for recurrently convincing not just terrorists, but
established churches and states, that they have God’s sanction
to slaughter innocent unbelievers. To ask whether the terrorist
attacks can be attributed not just to a “perversion of
religion,” but to something in the logic of religion itself."
The rape of children under the altars is just as much a mark of
the terrorist as any bomb, sourced in hideously false
justification at the same putrid swamp of fundamentalist
entitlement.
- Wade
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