A perspective on Post 9/11 America

America should have seen the light, instead we run to embrace the darkness. In the aftermath of 9/11, America was a victim of religious extremists. In reaction to these attacks, America has responded by running for comfort into the arms of religious extremism, in the form of Christian radicals. Rather than see the evils of religious extremism for what they are and reject them forthright, we coddle and empower radical religous zealotry in response.

It is as if America, as a victim of Islamic radicals, were trying to say, we have a God better than yours, our God, speaking through the Bible, will save and guide us from those who attack us in the name of Allah.

We need to wake up and see that this is all a fantasy - adults playing make believe. There is no God, Christian or otherwise, or Allah, merciful or otherwise.

Looking over the course of history, we see the ills that radical religious beliefs spawn - the violence, the senseless deaths, the conflicts. Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Jews, all have killed or been killed in the name of their "God" at one time or other.

The way out, the way to a secure future is to embrace secularism, to embrace science, reason, and logic, to encourage critical thinking, to build more libraries and fewer churches. In this era of scientific "miracles", we need to raise our awareness above the superstitious and groundless beliefs perpetuated in so-called holy texts.

To run away from secularism towards a radical religious state is to run into the same intellectual cave as our enemies, to become more like them than stand apart from them.