Well, it is this day again. I blogged about 9/11 a lot and when I started thinking about this new post, I wondered if I could write something I haven't said. This year again, it is Tracie Harris in her webcomic Atheist Eve who sums it up for me. Otherwise, I have little more to say about the event that I already did here, here and here. I still have the same feeling now.That this terrorist attack was an acto fo devout worship.
Sure, there are some reasons to be fairly optimistic. Al Qaeda is just a shadow of itself, Bin Laden was killed, and apparently New York is thriving. But we also integrated fear, religious fanatics still get a free pass because they are men of faith (regardless of the label of this faith), the sharia is still being applied here in the UK... From the rubbles of the World Trade Center on this day ten years ago grew a great cloud of smoke. I wonder if we haven't been covered by it, covered by the darkness since then.
Since the beginning of time Guillaume, not just these last 10 years. Since we first discovered fire and learned that a sharpened stick could kill things. People didnt need excuses then, but now we hide behind religion and politics and pretend that because we give our base instincts of power, and domination names, that we are civilised. There have sadly always been fires, and the accompanying smoke. just these last 10 years. Since we first discovered fire and learned that a sharpened stick could kill things. People didnt need excuses then, but now we hide behind religion and politics and pretend that because we give our base instincts of power, and domination names, that we are civilised. There have sadly always been fires, and the accompanying smoke.
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ReplyDeleteOh there has been darkness before, but we did progressed (in the right sense), evolved, we brought our light, however vast the darkness around us (to paraphrase Kubrick). That was an act of obscurantism, trying to destroy civilization and what we have of enlightenment.
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