From: Kharin (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 16:06:05 MDT
"Most telling. It would seem that most (religious) Americans find it
impossible to accept that they might have given offence to God. "
While I suspect admission of offence to be generally difficult to accept, it does seem to me that religions do tend to explain misfortune in terms of retribution. As I recall, some American fundamentalists did indeed react to September 11th by asserting that god had lifted his veil of protection from America for its immorality and lack of faith. Not really any different from explaining the plague as a divine visitation, or to any of the examples Frazier furnished in The Golden Bough. For their part, the mullahs explain the decline of Islamic society as being attributable to a failure to adhere properly to the Koran and to the introduction of Western immorality.
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