{"id":14193,"date":"2011-09-12T23:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2011-09-12T23:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:35:05","slug":"rev-gary-nicolosi-ruminates-on-how-911-shows-us-what-god-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rev-gary-nicolosi-ruminates-on-how-911-shows-us-what-god-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Gary Nicolosi ruminates on how 9\/11 shows us what God is like"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

God is like the firefighters who ascended the steps of burning buildings to save those who could not save themselves\u2026<\/p>\n

And who could forget the stories of airline passengers and workers at the Twin Towers, knowing they would die, who called others to say, \u201cI love you.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

And how about all the rescue workers who ploughed through the rubble in the coming days\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

True enough, but there was one curious omission which, because of its nature, I can\u2019t help thinking was deliberate.
\nGod is also like this<\/a> on Flight\u00a093:<\/p>\n

The passenger revolt on Flight 93 began at 09:57 after the passengers took a vote amongst themselves about whether to act. By this time, Flight 77 had struck the Pentagon and Flights 11 and 175 had struck the World Trade Center towers. The hijackers in the cockpit became aware of the revolt at 09:57:55, exclaiming, “Is there something? A fight?”\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n

The cockpit voice recorder captured the sounds of crashing, screaming, and the shattering of glass. Jarrah stabilized the plane at 10:00:03. Five seconds later, he asked, “Is that it? Shall we finish it off?” Another hijacker responded, “No. Not yet. When they all come, we finish it off.” Jarrah once again pitched the airplane up and down. A passenger in the background cried, “In the cockpit. If we don’t, we’ll die” at 10:00:25. Sixteen seconds later, another passenger yelled, “Roll it!”\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The 9\/11 Commission Report concluded that “the hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them”. However, many of the passengers’ family members, having heard the audio recordings, believe that the passengers breached the cockpit and killed at least one or all of the hijackers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The passengers of Flight\u00a093 sacrificed their live for others so you would think they might deserve a mention \u2013 if it weren\u2019t for that deeply troubling last sentence: they may have\u00a0 killed some of the hijackers. That\u2019s just not very inclusive<\/em> is it.<\/p>\n

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