Wild speculation time: Could 19 atheists have destroyed the World Trade Center?

Question

How about 19 agnostics? 19 Buddhists? 19 Unitarians?

Turn your imagination loose on the questions of their possible choice of weapons and especially their possible motivations.

I'm looking for wild-and-crazy here ("no kidding, weemaryanne? we thought you wanted a reasoned philosophical discourse, duh"). Go Yamsters!

Answer 1

I see a lot of folks here would rather avoid the topic. I understand. I also understand that if we don't learn from catastrophic lessons like this one, more will follow. And the lesson of this tragedy is the same as the lesson of the Oklahoma City bombing by Christian Identity wackos Timothy McVeigh and accomplices. Fundamentalism, of Christianity or Islam, harbors and creates nut case extremists that hold a world view in which the murder of innocents is not only accepted, but desirable, since in the fundamentalist world view everyone is guilty and only they deserve to live because only they serve God correctly, or call him by the right name, or whatever Neanderthal nonsense by which they divide the world into infidel and accepted. We tolerate these movements at our peril. Each demonstrates that religious tolerance cannot be boundless and the minute someone in a Madrassa, an Evangelical Church, Environmentalist group, anyone, starts talking bombs, murders, kidnappings and such to get their way, it's time to lock 'em up and close the doors, cut off their funding and prosecute their sponsors and donors for giving material support to terrorists.

Reality is that atheists are all over the map politically and as regards to social policy. Most feel somewhat disenfranchised in that to get elected you must posture as a theist and atheists won't. But if you go on atheist discussion boards you find we are in no way monolithic about anything and do not primarily identify ourselves by our disbelief. You can barely organize a group of atheists for an annual dinner, let alone a terrorist attack. We don't have a messiah who demands that we train and recruit more atheists or a prophet that tells us to slay infidels. I wrote big checks to a half dozen first time candidates in the last election and they all won, so right now I'm feeling pretty enfranchised myself. The only thing I feel oppressed by is being unable to turn on a TV or open a newspaper without a story about a dead stripper.

Answer 2

I am not going to speculate as to whether this question is appropriate. While yes, 9/11 was tragic, knowing people who had died, it still serves as a device for legitimate questioning.

Extremists of any religion are capable of doing anything, while Islam has been targeted as fanatical for decades, Christianity has proven that it can be just as extreme. Thus making it possible for both Buddhists and Unitarians to inflict such massive damage.

I would believe that atheist would have one of two motives. Either they feel oppressed and disenfranchised, stripped of their rights by a "Christian" nation. Or atheists may have a profound faith in the truth, and deem religion as a global hindrance to the truth. By making such a bold statement of destruction, it may cause people to question the validity of God, thus leading them towards the alleged truth.

I doubt, however, that atheists would destroy the World Trade Center, the head of commerce in the world. But rather, their aims may be directly towards religious building, perhaps St. Peter's Basicilla, The Mosque of Hagia Sophia, Westminster Abbey, or other prominent religious buildings. If atheists felt disenfranchized and oppressed, I would surmise that they would aim for solely governmental buildings - striking most effectively at the heart of the alleged oppressors.

Weapons could be anything, no reason to be specific. Any group basically has equal access to each type of weapon, be it guns, bombs, or even sadly commercial planes.

-Kerplunk288

Answer 3

LOL

Sure, the Unitarians would destroy the buildings by holding such a massive civil rights/peace rally inside that the sheer weight of all the people would collapse them.

Buddhists would convene there and meditate the place into rubble.

The Agnostics still haven't decided if they really want to destroy anything or not and the Atheists don't believe that the buildings exist in the first place.

Answer 4

President Bush did not blow up the international commerce midsection. No conspiracy in the west. Muslim terrorists planned and dedicated this horror. don't think each and every thing you spot on the information superhighway!!!!! human beings and communities lie.

Answer 5

I guess you did not lose anyone close to you in the tragedy or you would'nt be asking such a question. To ridicule others religion or non religion, maybe you should not have used the WTC as an example. Bad Taste! all around.

Answer 6

I forgive you for having no respect for the victims or their families.

It is totally improper, for you to ask this type of question; on the subject of the World Trade Center!

Answer 7

Remember, of the four planes, one hit the Pentagon, and one crashed in PA. So it only took ten. And it could have been fewer.

Answer 8

i'm waiting for 19 christians to destroy the towers in kuala-lampur as revenge. tragedy*time=hilarious

Answer 9

19 muslims

Answer 10

Atheist? No, they would be to busy arguing about why God isn't real. They would be more likely to be among the firemen.