Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action

by David Ray Griffin

Book Overview

Probing disturbing questions that beg for a response from the Christian community, distinguished scholar of religion and popular writer David Ray Griffin provides a hard-hitting analysis of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664231179
• ISBN13: 9780664231170
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You Can't Keep A Good Man Down

Another impassioned read from one of the 9/11 Truth Movement's crucial voices ... brave soul, David Ray Griffin!

All you Christians out there...are you listening?

I can't believe my own faith community's cowardice and rebelion against Jesus's teachings! It was the Presbyterian Press who published this work, yet those in that flock (here in Columbus, Ohio) don't know how to use thier faith to spark the work that God has shown needs to be done. Even those who claim to be workers for justice and peace rebel against this work. How can there be justice and peace without truth? I can't live in a society where I must declare something that is obviously black as being white just because that is what everyone tells me it is...what kind of peace is that? The absence of war and conflict is not peace. A house of Peace can only be secured after we build her foundation on the rock of truth. Truth may be scary, but the lack of it is much more treacherous. There is no room for fear in faith. Faith without action is like a scholar without a forum. What good is knowing the truth if we don't have the courage to get off our ever widening butts and do something about it? Christians, please don't think just because the truth is this bloody that you can just bury it. NO. Because this truth is so bloody, you have an obligation to expose it for what it is...a funeral for our friend, lady Liberty. You pay her no respect if you fail to bring up the truth to any audience you can. You allow more soldiers to die if we fail to spread the message of truth...the "good news" and the bad. Giffin is right! "Religions of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your impotence!"

The Book Hugo Chavez Should Have Held Up

One in three Americans has serious doubts about the conspiracy theory offered by the U.S. government that 19 Arabs armed with box-cutters were responsible for the hijacking of four airplanes, and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. A Scripps Howard poll found: "More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East". Yet major news media refuse to investigate alternative hypotheses offered by dozens of independent researchers and groups. When they do report on them, they are dismissive of these hypotheses, but do not address the evidence offered. Until last week, had I been asked where should one begin to examine the alternative hypotheses, and the vast amount of evidence available, I would have recommended "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" by David Ray Griffin, Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology. Now I'm not so sure. I have just finished reading a new book that claims, "9/11 was a 'false-flag' attack, orchestrated by forces within the U.S. government". This attack was used, claims the author, "to launch the kind of 'clash of civilizations' that Samuel Huntington had predicted. As illustrated by the fact that all the countries on the Pentagon's hit list are predominantly Muslim, this war pits the predominantly Christian West (along with its ally Israel) against the Islamic world." "One of the evils of this civilizational war," writes the author, "is that it has implanted in Western minds an association between 'Muslim' and 'terrorist,' so that Muslims tend to be regarded as guilty until proven innocent." The author calls upon the church to reflect on the "truth of this thesis -- that 9/11 was a false-flag operation carried out by forces within our own government in order to advance the American empire." He urges them to reflect upon "the implication of this book's thesis" and suggests several courses of action. For Muslim leaders, who are genuinely concerned about their community, and for all Americans, the truth about 9/11 may be the most important issue of our time. So where should one begin to examine the alternative hypotheses, and the vast amount of evidence available? Read "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11" by David Ray Griffin -- the book that Hugo Chavez should have held up during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2006.

Griffin's Best Book on 9/11

"Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11" is David Ray Griffin's best book on 9/11. It should be read by every American citizen. In Chapter 1, Griffin reviews the long history of U.S. government-sponsored "false flag" operations worldwide, in which the CIA and its subordinate allied agencies in NATO and foreign governments collaborated to create the appearance of "terrorism" by killing unnumbered innocent ordinary people. The shock of the mass murders allowed passage of draconian legislation and controlled the politics of countries of special concern to U.S. interests, especially in Europe. In other words, there is extensive historical evidence that 9/11 was only the largest-scale among many comparable secret operations by the U.S.. In Chapter 2, Griffin quotes from and summarizes the extensive testimony by firefighters and other first responders at the WTC on September 11 which proves beyond any doubt that multiple bomb explosions occurred throughout both towers both before and after the buildings were struck by flying objects. Some of this testimony he has culled from news reports, but the majority of the accounts comes from newly released oral histories collected by the FDNY but suppressed until last summer by the City of New York. In Chapter 3 Griffin demonstrates conclusively that the two towers as well as WTC 7, a 47-story steel-framed building, were brought down by controlled demolition. He exhaustively catalogues the characteristic features of controlled demolitions which were all exemplified in the collapses of the WTC buildings. In Chapter 4 Griffin presents a streamlined overview of the many lies and distortions put out by the 9/11 Commission to "explain away" the innumerable suspicions which have arisen with respect to the flights of the hijacked airliners and the lack of standard response to them (the standdown). In Chapter 5 Griffin concludes Part I with a demonstration that the "prima facie" case for government complicity in the mass murders established in his first two 9/11 books has now become a "conclusive" case. In Part II Griffin shifts from presentation of evidence about what happened on that black day to the broader questions raised. In Chapter 6 he establishes an array of "imperial motives" for the "New Pearl Harbor" of 9/11, showing that from the perspective of government planners the benefits to be gained made the risks of all sorts seem insignificant. Loss of life they have no concern for, as shown in Chapter 1, and the necessary changes in society that would ensue (exemplified by the PATRIOT Act) were desirable from the standpoint of the imperial planners. In Chapter 7 he first shows how the U.S. Empire is remarkably similar to the Roman Empire of 2000 years ago in its sense of divine authorization, its overwhelming military power, its use of terror to intimidate, its use of puppet rulers in countries under its control, and its exaction of "tribute and taxation" from subordinate populations. He then s