"God Talk" right after 9/11

[Rev. Rye]

Desperation may be the answer. A friend of mine said after America reverted back to irreligion "How soon we forget".

And disasters are Jealous' way of getting people to follow him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20Oz9Yr_So

but now there is more anti-religion then ever before? It seems our nation has really become backslidden.

I think that it's likely that a lot of it has to do with the way George Bush abused religion in the Wake of 9/11 to bring us into a war in Iraq by claiming that God was on his side. Clearly, if God exists, he wasn't on our side, because, after we took out Saddam, the war turned out to be a total disaster, and the conflict between Christianity and Islam became more and more clearly akin to the conflict in District 9.

[Pippy]

are we the bugs or the people?

The rhetoric was turned up after 9/11 becuase 9/11 was rhetoric. They couldn't let such a powerful motivator go to waste. So there was Osama, and the Patriot Act...

If you guys still believe in the 19 hijackers form Saudi Arabia led by Bin Laden, then please do more digging.

[Eilonnwy]

The new atheist movement was fueled by Sam Harris' book "The End of Faith" which was written after the 9/11 attacks. I think that was around the time everyone started publishing atheist books.

Which essentially goes hand in hand about being fed up. It's no surprise that when the Nation took a severe swing toward the religious right when Bush was elected in '04 that there was a non-religious backlash, and books are a great medium for gaining momentum.

[downbeatplumb]

Why was there so much "God Bless America" and "Pray for America", and increased church attendance for several months after the terrorist attack, but now there is more anti-religion then ever before? It seems our nation has really become backslidden.

Before 9/11 I thought of relgious people as a bunch of harmless whackos.

9/11 openned my eyes to what a truly religious person is capable of.

Worth fighting against?

You bet your life it is.

And remember the 9/11 terrorists did it as an act of devotion to the same god you christians worship.