nine eleven and nine

Nine years since the attack on The United States......but keep in mind that anyone 10 years or younger doesn't have that memory unless they have been schooled with repeated television images.

Some schooling just isn't a good idea.

Imagine if Hiroshima had been televised.

That's a horrible thought... but then again, once one starts remembering tragic events then other tragic events just become part of the process.

I realize there is a large contingent of adults out there who don't consider Hiroshima a tragedy.

They regard IT as a necessary event in order to end WW ll.

What I've been able to learn from my various studies is that detonating a nuclear bomb was simply a huge finishing statement for a situation that was pretty much over.

There are numerous people who say that Japan would never have surrendered but it seems that opinion is debatable. Our government made it pretty clear that our nuclear action was taken to save American lives and a vast majority of people accept that concept.

I'm just not sure that using a Nuclear Bomb sets the proper tone for traveling down a path of spiritual awareness.

Obviously wars of any kind.... put a damper on that highway.

Every personal act of violence creates a pothole on that path.

And that brings us to The Koran

The Koran has been very much in the news lately with the Florida situation.

I suspect that very few non-Muslim people have read The Koran. I would even put the figure at less than 1/10 of one percent of Americans.

I fall in that category and yet I have read enough excerpts to think I know what The Koran says about KILLING.

I ACTUALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE KORAN SAYS ABOUT ANYTHING BECAUSE I DON'T READ BOOKS THAT CLAIM THEY POSSESS THE WILL OF GOD.

IF THE KORAN CALLS FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO KILL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS BECAUSE THEY DON'T FOLLOW THE KORAN THEN THE KORAN IS WRONG.

IF THE KORAN DOESN'T SAY THAT.....THEN SOMEONE IS DOING A VERY POOR JOB OF RELAYING INFORMATION.

Every time I think of 9/11 I think of 19 Saudi Arabians, who were radical Muslims, somehow penetrated our security and attacked the United States because they thought the United States was the Devil.

That's what I think radical Muslims think..... because I've heard that they have read, in The Koran, that anyone who doesn't accept Allah is the enemy....and enemies should be killed.

I'M PRETTY SURE THAT MOHAMMAD HAD TO COME UP WITH SOME FAIRLY RADICAL STUFF IN 600 A.D.....BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME PRETTY RADICAL STUFF TAKING PLACE.

I'll go back to one of my favorite ideas ( THE COUNCIL OF FAITH) and simply say.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A REALITY SHOW THAT PUTS ALL RELIGIONS ON TRIAL.

AT THE SAME TIME...

USING THE BEST LAWYERS FROM EACH RELIGION TO BOTH DEFEND THEIR OWN RELIGION AND QUESTION THE OTHER RELIGIONS.

LET EVERYBODY TUNE IN ON A WEEKLY BASIS AND LEARN WHAT EACH RELIGION REALLY STANDS FOR. PEOPLE COULD BE REMINDED OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE TIME PERIODS WHEN THESE RELIGIONS WERE FORMED.

THAT ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE IGNORED WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THEIR RELIGIONS.

I think (BUT I HAVE NO PROVABLE IDEA)

that a Creator of the Universe

might regard our actions, that are based on historical religious points of view,

AS

PRIMITIVE

AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK ABOUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT 9/11

PRIMITIVE BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF HUMAN BEINGS.

It might be a good idea to prevent those ten year old and younger kids.... from watching the History Channel until they turn 18.

Michael Timothy McAlevey