Comments for A brief review of <i>The Christian Faith and The truth Behind 9/11</i> at http://pres-outlook.net , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://pres-outlook.net Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:41:20 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://pres-outlook.net/reviews/book-reviews/3083.html#comment-3360 A sick and sad commentary on the naive lengths to which Bush-haters will go to discredit America. While I see many arguments against some of the actions taken since 9/11 and oppose many Bush policies, the theories on explosives to collapse the buildings are laughable. Anyone who has worked around heated steel under pressure has no reason for convoluted theories on why these buildings collapsed. Using such weak arguments merely discredit all other aspects of the book and bring all other books from the publisher into question as either political diatribes or fairy tales. - Robert Hughes Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/reviews/book-reviews/3083.html#comment-3313 Would the PC(USA) publish a book by Alex Baldwin or CBS or Charlie Sheen or Dan Rather espousing the same theories? So why David Griffin? Their mental troubles are well documented. - les preston Sat, 19 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/reviews/book-reviews/3083.html#comment-3303 You are very misguided and confused. I have never seen such a distortion of the truth. There are so many people who have left the Pres. church USA, and I can see why. The article and book are ridiculous. It is hard for me to understand how someone working in the church in 'social witness policy' could write something like this and say you are a Christian and honor the truth! - Dottie Collins Tue, 15 May 2007 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/reviews/book-reviews/3083.html#comment-2808 Thank you, Chris. I just want to add something...am now reading The Banality of Good and Evil by David R. Blumenthal (Georgetown University Press, 1999). Blumenthal picks up from Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, the Banality of Good and Evil (New York: Viking Press, 1963) and takes it into the social/psychological realm, a descriptive analysis of how good or evil work their weaves into public life, coupled with praxis ancecdotes and one-liners out of Talmud and Judaic lore. I'm taking this book seriously especially since it was written before 9/11 and its aftermath. One of my immediate knee-jerk reactions to that event, as I squatted numbly on my living room floor, eyes glued to nothingness, was 'Reichstag Fire.' In other words, I wanted to blame the catastrophe on the Bush administration's need to gain absolute power absolutely at any price. But on reflection I realized that my American need to believe that Americans are in total control of their destiny was as irrational as the Bush administration has been incompetent. In no realm of public life, domestic or international, has any sign of effectiveness been demonstrated except that of hiding their incompetence by excuses if not outright lies. In that effort, they were exemplary, until the American public included them out in the last elections. My heart goes out to sincere Republicans who want good for this country and found their own inept and rather nasty. Even the Nazis, as Blumenthal points out with heavy duty research, made life quite agreeable for those who furiously nodded their agreement with Nazi ideology. After all, if life is economically precarious and emotionally barren, wouldn't any of us hang in with those who put food on the table washed down with a vintage wine of pride? The Bush administration didn't even see its way clearly into coddling the middle-class so that Treasury could imprint Bush's face on a quarter, but alienated that class as well. Being a process buff (Whitehead), I welcome Iosso's recognition that process types were short on evil, and that Griffin makes up for it (so I'll read the book). But I do wish that Reinhold Niehbur were still around to write on what's happening to the American character and conscience. We've become suspicious, vindictive, petty and greedy for self-esteem at any price, fertile soil for the propensity to casually do evil with or without malicious intent. Niehbur could comment on the how and why of that, with Grace peppering the final pages. If, as Iosso writes, Griffin is following Christ with that marvelous process sentiment of 'divine discontent' (Whitehead again), perhaps Griffin has found his way back and into the center of our faith, which tarnished Rome by slavishly obeying God, through Christ, rather than 'man.' Nothing like love to louse up other agenda. - Jill Schaeffer Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:00:00 +0100 http://pres-outlook.net/reviews/book-reviews/3083.html#comment-2697 So essentially the end (discredit Bush) justifies the means, and one shouldn't be too bothered by the incredible amount of cooperative deception across party, news and agency lines that must take place for this conspiracy to even be possible. Not a surprising analysis from the coordinator of out Social Witness Policy. By the way according to Griffin the 911 Commission was far more than hampered by the Bush Administration. In fact, by necessity they are part of the coverup. - John Stone Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0100