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What follows, then, are fragmentary thoughts about religion and community in the aftermath of the mass murder committed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania last Tuesday...
...aftermath of catastrophe, no empathetic human being can offer a whole or holistic response. We can only, in T.S. Eliot’s evocative phrase, shore fragments against ruins, and hope they will last until time and human resilience enable rebuilding...
...immediate aftermath of the attacks, the Internet played a crucial role in disseminating news and facts...
...aftermath of such an attack one of the most challenging aspects of recovery is accepting the element of horrible surprise as an x-factor. It?s almost impossible to accept that we can never be prepared for terrorism, that while we can try to live our lives in the safest and most responsible ways, our sheer existence, the fact that we draw breath, makes us viable targets for those who hate us. Ironically, of course, that sense of vulnerability, however terrifying, is also what frees us: We cannot control what happens to us, so we might as well live...
...from encouraging tolerance, the American media has only stoked the fire. Television networks continue to show over and over again the footage of a small group of Palestinians celebrating in the aftermath of the bombings. It shocks and saddens me that there are people in this world who delight in the killing of civilians. But as one editorialist pointed out, “The minuscule percentage of Palestinians who exulted at the tragedy is probably far smaller than the percentage of Americans who would call for massive terror bombing in the Arab world...