"If this place doesn't make you sick, it is because you've suppressed your reflex to tell right from purely evil deeds."- Famine, "To The Teeth"
It's not hard to figure out what the buzz is today. 10 years ago a nation experienced an attack from a group of people who were zealous about the beliefs they held, zealous to the point of justifying violence. Two massive towers fell when two commercial airliners, hijacked by radical Muslims, flew straight into the buildings. The Pentagon was damaged and a fourth attempt to take out the White House was prevented by heroic men and women who - with their lives - prevented said attempt.
Recently I wrote a post on the absurdity of religious pluralism (
you can read it here) and I wish to briefly revisit that subject. The motivating factor behind 9/11 was the religious beliefs of those who carried out the attacks. On religious pluralism it is impossible to condemn the attacks made in their belief because on religious pluralism, all religious beliefs are correct, and the men who carried out these attacks were justified because their beliefs would be correct.
Now, I am not suggesting that 9/11 demonstrates a falsification for all of Islam, conservative or radical. That is not at all what I am trying to say. Actually, Islam doesn't really have anything to do with the post. My beef is with religious pluralism. A consistent religious pluralist cannot condemn 9/11. If a religious pluralist does condemn 9/11, he/she is grossly inconsistent with the demands of religious pluralism and should abandon it entirely. Those who carried out the attacks did so in the name and from the worldview of their religious beliefs. If all religious beliefs are true, then the beliefs behind 9/11 are true as well.
Such is the consequence of a dangerous and irrational idea, that somehow all religious beliefs can be true. I think 9/11 and the overwhelming condemnation of the attacks should show us that truth matters, and the truth is that what happened on this day ten years ago is something that should have never taken place, and no belief could justify it. We will never forget.
Here are a few other posts concerning 9/11 that are worth checking out, from my fellow apologists in the Apologetics Blogger Alliance:
