To Dr. Shah

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr. Shah,

 

I copy below two paragraps of your email concerning the terrorist

attacks in New York and Pennsylvania of yesterday.

 

I am very disappointed with the tone of superiority. Who are you, who

apparently have not lived in the West, to judge the West's claim on

religion? How can you take it upon yourself to cite Christianity as no

more than a decorative showpiece of Churches and drawing rooms? There

is far more to it than you seem to be aware of. It is just such

inability to go beyond the surface that finally culminates in

fanaticism. There is a very strong foundation of spirituality in this

country, beginning with our Native Americans and including the religions

of all the immigrants thereafter. Though we may appear only interested

in the materialistic, though the worldly " movers and shakers " are in the

 

headlines of the world, there is a very deep core of spirituality in

this country, of which we are humble and rarely speak. I don't know who

said it but: a silent stream runs deep.

 

Yours sincerely,

Edith Tipple

>

>Come September, and the world is stunned by the ghastly terrorist

attack

>on the so called 'symbol' of civilized world of free market economy,

cut

>throat competition, and materialistic masterpiece. The USA is shocked

>beyond description, and so is the world. The terrorists had their day;

>mission accomplished. Helpless onlookers panicked, and later must have

>withdrawn within themselves to ponder over the compulsions of such a

>step. Why, why? This must be the beleaguering question they must have

>put to themselves, which can never be answered.

>

>For, we are not yet ready to accept the answer that is beyond the realm

 

>of common concepts of human mind. Religious terrorism and fanaticism

>springs from the conceptual belief in certain philosophy. The West has

>none, for they have forsaken their claim on religion. Christianity has

>become no more than a decorative showpiece in their Churches and

drawing

>rooms. Science and technology has become their religion, replacing

>spiritual contents for sense pleasures alone. The inevitable thus had

to

>happen.