Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero Response
The Person i agreed with most in ‘Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero’ is Andrew DeBlanco. The first sentence that really stuck out to me in his response to what ‘evil’ is reguarding September 11, 2006 was, “It’s a word we don’t want to use to excuse ourselves from these characteristics by pointing the finger at somebody else and saying, ‘There’s evil. Go get it, and rid the world of that person or that point of view, and everything will be all right.’” I thought that this was what the world had been seeing evil as, and we can’t anymore. Everyone has been saying Osama is the evil in this world, and if we rid him the evil would be gone. It’s not that easy, September 11th went deeper than just being the fault of one human being. It was a whole nation, trying to break us apart.
Andrew DeBlanco had a very good point when he stated that we as a country have lost touch with the reality of evil, becuase before September 11 we as a nation didn’t think something this evil could or would happen to us. He made a statement that we cant just live in this country aadn think that what is happening on the other side of the world has nothing to do with us, because it does and we had to learn that the hard way on September 11, 2001. One opinion that Andrew DeBlanco had was that what happened on September 11, 2001 cannot be explain with ordinary language of politics or psychology, because what we saw in his opinion was truly what evil is. Andrew stated that we need to understand that this was evil otherwise we won’t be able to cope with it; when i read this i thought to myself that if we dont cope with it now we will be living our whole lives looking for an explanation.
