The Crazy Aunt We Keep in the Basement.
We have all heard of the “Crazy Aunt” that a family doesn’t want anyone to know about. When friends come over they lock her in the basement, and when she makes disturbing noises they pretend they don’t hear anything.
Religion is mankind's crazy aunt!
Religion acts out some of the most bizarre and violent behavior right before our eyes, but we always stop our ears and cover our eyes. The World Trade Center was the most obnoxious case of this denial in recent memory.
Nineteen hijackers from Muslim countries, crashed airplanes loaded with people into buildings but “terrorism” is blamed. I have been watching the news ever since for even the slightest hint that the media would do its job and discuss the religious cause of this madness; it never happened. The closest they came was to blame “fundamentalist views" but not Islam, Christianity, Judaism or even atheism. The media is trying desperately to ignore this crazy aunt, and so far they have succeeded.
In the wake of 9/11, every department of government came under intense scrutiny by the 9/11 commission, but academia was given a pass. These intellectuals were quick to openly criticize all of the government agencies involved, for not knowing that the fanatics created by atheism and theology were about to crash planes into buildings. Never mentioned was the fact that these same intellectuals had spent the last forty years disparaging and dispiriting these poor people.
Here are the questions the 9/11 commission needed to ask in order to truly solve the problem of terrorism:
1) Does academia create the atheistic and theological concepts that divide mankind, and did those ideologies cause all of the holy wars, holocausts, jihads, and violent atheistic revolution of history?
2) Do they indoctrinate every world leader, government official and media personality with these inherently flawed concepts in their universities?
3) Does academia design our nuclear, biological and chemical weapons?
4) Did academia fail to solve the mystery of God and human existence?
Had they asked and answered those questions, they would have produced a solution that would not require Gestapo style check points at every public gathering in America.
Since 9/11, I have personally handed my book, The Awful Truth, to: Peter Jennings, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Tim Russert and several other major talk show hosts. I even offered to buy advertisements on these shows, if the host would do an interview. In some cases, the Ad executives told me they can’t do it, because they “don’t do religious subjects.” The rest didn't even take the time to respond. Do these folks really think that the World Trade Center and subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t religious subjects?
This week I saw George Will interviewed about the religious fervor of President Bush. He discussed the President’s Christian agenda from a political standpoint, but not the veracity of Christianity. At the end of the show, the interviewer asked him what religion he followed. He replied, “That is a private matter, it’s nobody’s business." Well I am sorry folks, but religion is everyone’s business. These “beliefs” are threatening our lives and those of our children. One hundred and thirty thousand young Americans are being shot at in Iraq and Afghanistan, and almost one thousand have been killed by believers in Islam. It is critical to know what religious agenda is behind the people making the news, those who pretend it doesn’t matter in the media, and those who indoctrinate our children with their flawed atheistic and religious beliefs, in academia.
If we are to prevent our crazy aunt from bringing a nuclear, biological or chemical dirty bomb up from the basement, we must bring her into the living room, discuss her bizarre behavior publicly and get her the psychological help she desperately needs – the truth!
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Patrick Conway on 08.20.04 @ 10:21 PM EST [more..]
