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Folks, regarding the issue of sensitivity which many opponents of the Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan, tend to raise. Let me ask them this:
There are Christian churches in Hiroshima & Nagasaki where we all know hundreds of thousands of civilians perished when we nuked those cities.
Since the USA is a so-called "Christian nation" and the men who dropped those bombs were likely Christians, was building these places of worship at these places a good thing to do despite the sensitivities of the families of the victims??
(Incidentally, there is also is a Shinto Shrine in Pear Harbor which the Japanese destroyed in their sneak attack & almost 2500Americans were killed.)
Einstein's answer was always that his only act had been to write to President Roosevelt suggesting that the United States research atomic weapons before the Germans harnessed this deadly technology. He came to regret taking even this step. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, he said that "had I known that the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing."
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., The Cross and the Bomb:
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http://www.rtjournal.org/vol_1/no_1/wetmore.htm (broken link)
The Cross and the Bomb
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Japan was bombed in the name of American secularism, individualism and materialism. There is a separation of Church and state. If anything the McDonald's and KFC which represents American materialism should be demolished.
Folks, regarding the issue of sensitivity which many opponents of the Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan, tend to raise. Let me ask them this:
There are Christian churches in Hiroshima & Nagasaki where we all know hundreds of thousands of civilians perished when we nuked those cities.
Since the USA is a so-called "Christian nation" and the men who dropped those bombs were likely Christians, was building these places of worship at these places a good thing to do despite the sensitivities of the families of the victims??
(Incidentally, there is also is a Shinto Shrine in Pear Harbor which the Japanese destroyed in their sneak attack & almost 2500Americans were killed.)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't destroyed in the name of Jesus. The Twin Towers were destroyed in the name of Allah. Big difference.
You sure? Most muslims will tell you that what happened to the twin towers was in no way done in the name of Allah, just as Christians will tell you that none of the ills they have perpetuated on humanity have been done in the name of Jesus.
I'm pretty certain that Christians had no doubts they were doing God's work in taking out the "evil axis" of the Nazis and Japs.
Christian churches in Japan should close up, pack their stuff and get out of Japan.
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nothing to do with Jesus
