Reply #10: The problem is binary thinking.... [View All]

[jberryhill]

For example:

Let's say I agree with the Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination, and you disagree with the Warren Commission. We could have a lively discussion on Oswald's history, bullet trajectories, the CIA, the Mafia, Cuba, and the whole works. We could both probably learn things in the course of that discussion.

However, what we are going to disagree with is who shot JFK, how many shots were fired, and why they did it. I doubt we are going to disagree that JFK was shot.

We are not going to spend endless hours being harangued by those who call us murderers if we do not agree that JFK wasn't shot, but that he had an explosive device implanted in his head in order to make it explode.

There is zero question that the US worked with, encouraged, and cultivated Islamic extremists for a long time and for lots of reasons that seemed, to somebody, to be a good idea at the time. A "full investigation" of 9/11 would certainly uncover all sorts of things that would be uncomfortable for all sorts of people. All sorts of skeletons in all sorts of closets, and plenty to go around. I'd love to see those skeletons outed, and I believe that there's a whole lot of truth we haven't heard. But none of that has anything to do with remote-control airplanes, planted explosives, firing a missile at the Pentagon, molten pools of metal, etc.

Do you expect that every Christian is a creationist? If a professing Christian has reconciled his faith with evolution as God's mechanism for the creation of species, do you browbeat him because he "doesn't believe the Bible"?

Take the no-planers, for example. How much "investigation" do you think is needed into the question of whether or not airplanes were flown into the WTC towers? Leaving aside the entire question of planted explosives and whatnot in addition to the planes, do you really believe that to get off of "team OCT" I really need to doubt the reality of the airplanes?