FYI: New David Ray Griffin Book & Remembering 9-11-01

Monday, September 11 2006 @ 08:10 AM EDT

Contributed by: Christian Avard

Folks,

I just found out that David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor published his third book. It's called Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action. It came out this summer and had little fanfare compared to his prior 2.

For more, check out the link to Amazon. The Vermont Commons also has a web exclusive book review and I'm sure will be more informative.

In rememberance of the 9-11 atrocities, I also want to add a link to one of my favorite pieces on 9-11. It's called "Babi Yar in Manhattan" and written by the Russian literary great, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

He begins...

Today, terrorists invented a way to transform passenger planes into giant gas bombs. What if tomorrow, terrorists are equipped with atomic mini-bombs, or chemical or biological weapons, and other countries become the next targets? World evil has quick legs, but the legs of goodness are tired. New kamikazes--for whom will be reserved, their criminal teachers promise, the best virgins in the other world--will be ready, even tomorrow, thinking that they are messengers of the highest justice, to rip through the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, the Sistine Chapel, the Cathedral of Cologne, Big Ben. Aggressive fundamentalism begins with the explosion of the main foundations of humanity.


Please take a minute to read the rest of this outstanding and moving piece. From the September 27th, 2001 issue of The Nation.

- patagonianomore

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