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WTC: The religious event and the movie

Jonathan Mahler, in a NY Times review of Joel Meyerowitz’s book of photos of the World Trade Center clean-up, joins the congregants at the church of the WTC, saying of the workers: “…they are reclaiming this hallowed ground, making it possible once again to imagine a future there.”

The attack on the World Trade Center was a despicable act of mass murder. As is true for too many of us, people I know lost loved ones there. But those deaths did not make the ground sacred. There’s something dangerous and unseemly about referring to it as such: Unseemly because it implies that the lives that were stolen need a special nimbus of grace to be valued; dangerous because imbuing a horrible crime with religious significance puts it within the realm where the murderers want it. They want a jihad. It’s real important that we not give them one.

IMO.


I have not seen the movie WTC, and I will not. In fact, I would pay an annual subscription never to see another Oliver Stone movie.

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