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Christian Faith and the Truth Behind
9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action
David Ray Griffin
Westminster John Knox Press, 2006
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arvioita kirjasta:
"Professor David
Ray Griffin has a well-deserved reputation for the
thoroughness of his research. All Americans who love
their country enough to dig into the facts of these
critical times will be well rewarded by examining his
books. 9/11 truth is a very important issue---one with
the power to bring lasting change to our
country.-The Reverend William Sloane
Coffin Jr, author of Credo: Letters to a Young
Doubter and A Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S.
Churches
If you are open to recognizing that the United
States behaves much as other great powers have behaved,
but you get your information through standard American
channels, I dare you to expose yourself to the facts
Griffin summarizes, facts that have been suppressed by
our newspapers and magazines. If you are one who wants to
be a disciple of Jesus, you will have some hard thinking
to do about what American Christians are called to be and
to do at this historical moment.
John B. Cobb Jr, co-author of The
American Empire and the Commonwealth of God
Are we brave enough to read this nerve-wracking
book, one of the most important theological texts of our
time? Rooted in the longstanding belief that Christians
share responsibility for shaping a more justice-loving
world, Griffin makes a strong case that the real
"conspiracy theory" about 9/11 is the Bush
Administration's silly notion that nineteen young Arab
men could have pulled it off. Griffin helps us wrestle
with questions that are almost too much to bear, yet
which may empower us, if we dare, to build a more
truthful and, over time, more deeply moral nation and
world.---The Reverend Carter Heyward,
Robbins Professor of Theology Emerita, Episcopal Divinity
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of Saving
Jesus from Those Who Are Right and God in the Balance:
Christian Spirituality in Times of Terror
A gripping account of precedents for the current
global empire, from the Rome of Jesus to
twentieth-century false-flag operations. . .
. His wake-up call to U.S. Christians will be evaded at
our peril.Catherine Keller,
Professor of Theology, Drew University, and author of God
and Power.
In two earlier books, David Ray Griffin established
himself as one of the foremost researchers into 9/11.
This book is of immensely greater scope and importance. .
. . It sees the contemporary world clearly and
synoptically in an informed Christian perspective, so
that it makes questions of theodicy and the roots of evil
as contemporary as the events of 9/11. Even though it
makes some claims and arguments I disagree with, I
consider this one of the most significant and original
books I have ever read.Peter Dale
Scott, author of Drugs, Oil, and War: The United
States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina
"WARNING: If, like most Americans calling themselves
Christian, you prefer the comfort of acquiescing in the
official version of 9/11 and the imperial wars it
facilitated, DROP THIS BOOK NOW. But if you are open to
the grace of honest inquiry and the risk of following the
historical Jesus in confronting the evils of empire, this
rigorously argued book is a MUST READ.Ray
McGovern, CIA veteran analyst now with Tell the
Word, a project of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour,
Washington, D.C.
"David Griffin has previously made the case for the
Bush administrations complicity in 9/11 and the
cover-up of this evidence by the 9/11 Commission.
Here, in this important book, he puts these
shocking realities in the context of Christian theology
and the challenge to the churches. In a profound
exploration of the nature and history of the demonic,
Griffin suggests that American empire is a culmination of
human demonic alienation from God."Rosemary
Radford Ruether, emeritus scholar, Claremont
Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology
Do American Christians want the United States to
act like the New Rome, invading other countries to impose
its imperial rule and its control of other peoples
resources? That, however, is just what the US is doing,
increasingly so since 9/11, explains David Griffin. In
this gripping summary of evidence for the truth behind
9/11 and the 9/11 Commission report, Griffin makes a
compelling case that the imperial practices of the
American government have become a destructive force in
the world. And he clarifies the biblical and theological
basis for Christians to challenge the resurgent American
imperialism that often claims divine blessing on its
destructive actions.Richard A.
Horsley, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts
and the Study of Religion, University of Massachusetts,
and author of Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and
the New World Disorder
Compelling reading. Here is a remarkably thorough
presentation of facts regarding 9/11 events. Professor
Griffin sets the events of 9/11 in a historical,
religious, and philosophical context that is most
enlightening. Although this context is also somewhat
chilling, he holds out hope in his discussion of where we
can go from here. I most highly recommend this
book!Steven E. Jones,
Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Part 1: Evidence That 9/11 Was a False-Flag
Operation
1. 9/11 and Prior False-Flag Operations
2. Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers
in the 9/11 Oral Histories
3. The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the
Official Account Cannot Be True
4. Flights of Fancy: The 9/11 Commissions
Incredible Tales of Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93
5. Bush Administration Responsibility for 9/11: From a
Prima Facie to a Conclusive Case
Part 2: A Christian Critique of 9/11 and American
Imperialism
6. Imperial Motives for a New Pearl Harbor
7. Jesus and the Roman Empire
8. The Divine and the Demonic
9. The American Empire, Demonic Evil, and 9/11
10. A Call to Reflection and Action
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