Absolutism vs Certainty as cause of 9'11 'evil'

Submitted by Stephen Borkowski (United States), Sep 10, 2011 at 12:21

I read your article as well as those of Dana Peroni and Ion the Russian defector in the comments you suggested I choose to write you instead of adding to the huge no. of responses. I have a different take on when the war started. You could argue that it started when Mahhamed and his followers believe it is their Allah-order to make the world have one religion. To me , the suicide bombing in Beirut to get U.S. forces off of Islam land was the beginning although I had learned from an oil worker who had lived in Saudi Arabia that they had a funny kind of religion that called for a separation policy between Arabs and Americans ( laughable to us then).

In 1983,I made it my business to understand religious suicide and within a week I came to the conclusion that the cause is certainty in the brainwashed minds due to the religious education of young minds. As I was a child and taught youngsters for 35 years, I will defend my position on the gullibility of young minds and how easily those minds can believe as fact what they learn and/or are conditioned to accept as fact. Therefore, in 1983, I predicted and warned people that religious muslim suicde bombers would someday bomb New York ( picked NY by what I read of B.Lewis) Some peopled believed me. Those media people I emailed ,like B.O'reilly continue to call it a war on terror. From what I have read of you, I believe you would agree they are full of BS. When we can all agree on naming the enemy correctly we can go about defeating religious certainty as a tactic to control people. I have proposed an international policy that mandates the usage of a disclaimer in state sanctioned schools dealing with faith and beliefs. I hope you take the time to view a PBS special that I watched at 11 o'clock on Weds. 9/7 that dealt with the cause'of religious evil. The opinion of the involved clerics was that is due to 'Absolutism'. I have 'Certainty' of it

I am very glad you are in this fight and that I am being educted by your organization

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