"Thin skin" for reacting to the comparison of any of us to terrorists? If one of the Catholics made this sort of accusation against any of you, I would have reacted in exactly the same way. I thought it was over the line. As I said to Havoc, above, we're all on the same side when it comes to defending our nation.
Seems you missed the point too. It wasn't a comparison to terrorists. It involved terrorists; but, it wasn't a comparison to terrorists. The point was blind faith. And the point was the terrorists had it, the people who let them in had it, the people who rode the plane had it, the pilots had it..... Everyone involved in the situation was a victim of blind faith on some level - everyone. That, to me, is what makes it exempliary of what not to do.
There are other points I could make about it, not the least of which is that the haulocost should be as personal as 9/11. The witch trials should be as personal. The inquisitions and Crusades should be as personal. To me they are all personal examples - very personal. And they are so personal because every one of them is an example of men interposing themselves in the place of God and making judgements of life or death over others because of what they believe. It's not a matter of x-number of lives lost - its a matter of x-number of souls condemned to hell in the midst of any of the situations. If an action or inaction sends someone to hell, then the person or persons responsible have stolen from everyone of us and from God. To me, there is nothing more personal than that.