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To: shrinkermd
it's the kind of mind-set that pushed Mohamed Atta to smash a passenger plane into the World Trade Center

Amazing. Religion had absolutely nothing to do with it?

7 posted on 08/07/2004 7:29:55 PM PDT by knuthom
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To: knuthom
You've got a point.
"In order to console himself and to restore his self-assertion, such a man is in search of a scapegoat. He tries to persuade himself that he failed through no fault of his own. He was too decent to resort to the base tricks to which his successful rivals owe their ascendancy. The nefarious social order does not accord the prizes to the most meritorious men; it crowns the dishonest, unscrupulous scoundrel, the swindler, the exploiter, the `rugged individualist.'"

Within this scapegoat paradigm, the Jews are to blame for Arab misery, and America is to blame for the decline of Muslim civilization. From there, it's a short step to flying a passenger jet into a Manhattan skyscraper ...

Yet the Bible addresses the same concept - that the wicked often prosper more than the righteous (e.g. Psalm 73) - yet there have been no Jews or Christians flying airliners into skyscrapers. Religion is a factor here.
9 posted on 08/08/2004 7:16:39 AM PDT by watchin (Democratic Party - the political wing of the IRS)
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