Kansas City Blogger Shares 9/11 Testimony

Longtime local newspaper scribe Bill Tammeus lost a member of his family on 9/11 and, for many, his words resonate regarding the American tragedy.

Here's an apt quote from his writing on today's tragic anniversary . . .

The nearly 3,000 people who were murdered on 9/11 were, in effect, given the death penalty to pay for what the terrorists' leaders believed were our American government's and our culture's violations of their rigid theological standards.

It was far from the first time that misguided religion had led to bloodshed. Nor did such faith-based horrors end with 9/11, either.

But what they all had in common was the radical failure of some people of faith to understand and act on the key concept at the root of almost every generative religious tradition -- the inestimable value of every human being, a concept that springs from the conviction that each person bears the image of God.

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Faith Matters Blog:The failure behind 9/11 continues to produce a broken world