In an earlier post I wrote how I was simply stunned that people are willing to believe that our government was behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Today I read at Religion News Blog that...
The official publishing house of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has printed a new book about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that has outraged conservatives in the church and elsewhere.The book, "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11," written by David Ray Griffin, a professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology in California, accuses the Bush administration of carrying out the attacks as a pretext for expanding America's "demonic" imperial power.
Griffin argues, among other things, that the World Trade Center towers collapsed because of secretly planted explosives -- he quotes eyewitnesses who claim that's what it looked and sounded like -- and not because airliners crashed into the buildings, causing fires.
It is sad that these sorts of attitudes- and that's what they are for the lack enough truth and evidence to be described even as beliefs- are able to attract an audience. It is even sadder that a mainstream church publishing house will back such an enterprise. While free speech rights allow the author to spin his web, free speech rights do not require that a church publishing house provide a forum for his views.
He should have to get a blog, like all the other nuts, right?
GP
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