Faith-based Positing

by The Presbyterian Church

Religious Book Points 9/11 Finger At Bush

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has tumbled into a new dispute over the Sept. 11 attacks of five years ago.

Its Presbyterian Publishing Corp. has issued “Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11” (Westminster John Knox), containing perhaps the most incendiary accusations leveled by a writer for a mainline Protestant book house.

Author David Ray Griffin tells of concluding that “the Bush-Cheney administration had orchestrated 9/11 in order to promote this (American) empire under the pretext of the so-called war on terror.”

“No other interpretation is possible,” he asserts
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Presbyterian Publishing’s unapologetic responses to the critics insist that Griffin’s “carefully researched” work and “intellectually rigorous arguments” merit “careful consideration by serious-minded Christians and Americans concerned with truth and the meaning of their faith.”

The publisher’s publicity contends that Griffin “applies Jesus’ teachings to the current political administration” and puts forth “an abundance of evidence and disturbing questions that implicate the Bush administration.”

Presbyterian News Service explains that the publishing house, though one of the denomination’s six national agencies, receives no church money and “operates with complete editorial autonomy.” It is governed by a board elected at the Presbyterian assembly.

Griffin’s ultimate goal? He wants Christians to try to supplant America’s “demonic” regime with a system of “global government.”

I’ll be darned.