Interesting show on PBS today on Frontline. I'm not looking forward to all the Sept. 11th anniversary exploitation shows but this one I thought was fairly good. The one thing that kinda bothered me though is how many people seemed to have their beliefs affected by something outside themselves. People whose faith in "god" was shattered or weakened or even strengthened. I dunno maybe I'm just dense or something, but Sept 11th didn't change my belief system. But I watched the whole thing as a sort of passive observer, I experienced shock and disbelief like a lotta people, but I also saw the beauty in it all and the despair and the utter stupidity of it all. But I think it did get some people, maybe, thinking about how we put so much energy in things that don't matter. I also hope that some people realize that it wasn't god or God that did this or let it happen, it wasn't even really people that did it, it was faith. But faith has more than one facet, just like everything else. It can be used for harm or healing. It can be rationalized or exalted. I think it's wrong to condemn someone for their faith. But I also think that a lotta people in this country use their faith as a way of convincing themselves they are more important than others of differing faith, and our own president called those of differing faith "evil" after Sept. 11th. That really bothered me, but I realize that each of us has to find our own version of faith. We may not always agree, but I think we do need to realize we're all in this crazy wacky thing called life together, and no matter how much faith you may have that this isn't all there is, you might be wrong. But so might I. <grin>

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