Christians Uncovering The Truth
Posted on Tuesday, September 05 at 15:22 by mjclarke
It requires people of exceptional bravery to scream from the rooftops that the Emperor has no clothes on, especially if they have an absolutely impeccable reputation and enjoy the deep respect of their peers. They have got to be so outraged that they decide to let it all hang out and risk their future well being in order to do the right thing, the moral thing, the honest thing. The eminent Dr. David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology in California and author of a new book, Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, is just such a person.
Griffin’s publisher and president of the official publishing house of the Presbyterian Church, Davis Perkins, defends the book when it accuses the Bush administration of carrying out the attacks as a pretext for expanding America’s “demonic” imperial power. Perkins realizes that the premise will not be accepted by all, but “the arguments supporting the claims merit careful consideration by serious-minded Christians and Americans who are concerned with truth and the meaning of their faith.” Perkins emphasized that the book is “not an off-the-wall polemic but rather a considered work” with “49 pages of extensive scholarly notes.”
Succinctly, Dr. Griffin states that the U.S. military could have intercepted the four hijacked jets if it had wanted to, that the hijacker accused of slamming an airliner into the Pentagon lacked the flying skills to do so and that the two World Trade Center towers and WTC building #7 collapsed because of covertly planted demolition explosives, not plane crashes or fires. The theologian reasons that “Our first allegiance must be to God. If we believe that our political and military leaders are acting on the basis of policies that are diametrically opposed to divine purposes, it is incumbent upon us to say so.” Dr. Griffin believes today’s Christians must oppose U.S. (ergo Canadian) imperialist foreign policies just as ancient Christians opposed the Roman Empire, as all such empires have “demonic” powers to do great harm.
Dr. Griffin readily admits that he’s heard criticisms, “but not from anybody who’s actually read the book. It is remarkable how certain people can be that this idea is wrong” and they haven’t even researched it.
On the fifth anniversary of the false flag attacks known as 9/11, don’t you think it’s finally time you uncovered the cover up for yourself? All serious Christians should be searching for the real truth and the deeper meaning of their faith relative to the atrocities and war crimes committed in the name of the War on Terror, because 911 truly changed everything, but not in the way our governments have repeatedly been telling us. Once you discover that 9/11 is the U.S. government’s other “state secret”, maybe you will stop supporting the delivery of death and destruction to innocents all over this world in the name of “freedom and democracy” and start delivering some death and destruction to the real perpetrators of 9/11 that are hiding in plain sight and prospering within our own ranks.
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 7, 2006]
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
I haven't read the book but I have seen several lectures he has given and his style is not to spend his time praising the Lord.<br />
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You can catch a speech of his on video at <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html">http://www.911blogger.com/2005/04/proper-release-of-griffin-in-madison.html</a> <p>---<br><br />
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)
I'll have to try and find his book, trying to view video on dialup is excruciating.
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
I've credit his other two books on 911, "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions- A Critique of the Kean-Zelikow Report" and "The New Pearl Harbor, Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11", for helping me believe in my own disbelief in the official conspiracy theory. So much of what Griffin has to say is so simple and so basic, that it is easy to dismiss it, but his arguments and presentation are so calm, cool, rational, logical that it makes disbelief in the official conspiracy theory entirely believable.
I am amazed at Griffin's dedication to this issue and the unswerving moral imperative, which is so not that holier than thou righteousness that is so familiar from the American Christian right, that drives him. He was ready to retire, but now he is busier than ever, and has put his well earned prior reputation as a theologian and scholar, unselfishly on the line.
Griffin's sacrifices, and his reasons for doing so, are entirely the kind that Christ exhorted his followers to make.
The man is a true hero in the fullest sense of the word.
When I submitted the above piece (which was actually printed in the Chilliwack Times (BC) last Friday without any editing) to Vive, I was basically appealing to the extremely right wing "pious" religionists that populate the Bible belt here in the Fraser Valley where I live. Despite their so-called religious faith they continually support polarized societies, the occupation of Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq, mercenary roles for Canada's military and total dedication to the delusional War on Terror.
That said, as a young boy my first experience with Christianity consisted of Sunday morning US Army Base Chapel services where my strongest recollection is standing in the middle of hundreds of military families blasting out "Onward Christian Soldiers, marching on to war with the cross of Jesus going on before..."
During those years, I was simultaneously being influenced by my mother's Southern Baptist family in a small town in the southern U.S. Bible belt. When I lived there in 1954 (between my dad's duty station assignments) I was "educated, baptised and immersed" in the teachings of the conservative First Baptist Church. Just how conservative was it? That same year my grandfather also took me to a Ku Klux Klan rally in a vacant lot next to the Dairy Queen on the highway just at the edge of town. As I stood back at the edge of the crowd holding my grandfathers' hand, I still remember the light from the burning crosses casting weird shadows on their pointy white caps and flowing robes. I had no idea what was going on, but it didn't feel right. It felt creepy. You should also understand that my grandfather was quite involved in local politics and considered a righteous and well respected gentleman. He was a long time Federal Indian Agent for the Choctaws who had a reservation in the nearby mountains, and I was fascinated when he took me along on a visit one day. He spoke only in Choctaw and was greeted warmly with hugs and handshakes from the Chiefs.
Soon after that my family was stationed in Japan and I became intrigued by Shintu and Buddhism. In later years I was further influenced by Zen, transcendental meditation, Ital Rastafarianism and Islam.
The only way for me to reconcile all of these spiritual influences was to finally dedicate myself to homo sapiens' FUNDAMENTAL core responsibility to protect Gaia and our FUNDAMENTAL core responsibility to recognize that all homo sapiens are our sisters and brothers and that we must all work together for the greater good of all humanity.
But, to this day, the moralist Bible lessons taught in Sunday School when I was a little kid - the stories and pictures of Jesus as a loving saviour caring for the children and performing miracles for the enslaved and the oppressed - still help stoke the white hot fires of my Gaian Fundamentalist compassion.
It is so disappointing to me that so many contemporary Christians have moved so far away from those same precepts. That is why I addressed my essay to Christians, to remind them of what they have forgotten - fundamental truths and the true meaning of their religion.
And, yes, I think that David Ray Griffin feels the same way.
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Michael