14 years ago today a terrible thing happened and this has led to this blog. A serious blog is what I am about to write. Don't get used to it!!
On that day, at that time, in that place the world was sadly changed and became what some would argue is a much worse place to be. The attack was beyond what I think most people would ever think was within the realms of reality. I mean, planes being hijacked and flown into buildings and one being hijacked and aimed at what most would regard as the head of the US secret service! I mean seriously, this shit just doesn't happen in real life. When people talk about it and then start throwing around numbers of people who died on that day I can never understand why they don't also then include the people who have died as park of the chain reaction that was begun on that day. We all saw what happened afterwards. We all saw that it was used as an excuse to go and wage war on terror. What does that really mean though? Does it mean that, and I don't know the figures, it's alright to have killed off more people than the actual attacks and justify it as "we are hunting for Bin Laden"? No I don't think it does. Please don't me wrong, I agree that there were certain people that MUST have been taken out of power and it is great that those people are no longer in control of anything. It wasn't done in the right way though in my humble opinion. We went to war under the cloud of hate rather than defence.
What it the most long term damaging thing that might very well have come from the action that was taken? I think without doubt the most vile thing that has come from what happened is the level of generalised opinion that has flourished with regards to people casting aspersions on entire religions. I am not a fan of religion and that is putting it lightly but you have to be offensively stupid to place everyone from the same belief system in the same bracket. If you do that and are a christian then you really need to evaluate your life and take a look at the back ground to a few bits of history. Religions are simply a guide to how people should live their lives. Some take it like each word is a direct command. Some read it and choose to work with the good parts and ignore the bad. The only people in the world that we need to worry about that read these guides to beliefs are the people that choose to enforce the bad points with force.
I don't really know where else to go with this without opening the double doors on other controversial subjects and those are not for here an now!
People need to concentrate on love and not on the hate that they can spin from things.
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