18 years after 9/11 is it still too soon for Americans to confront the questions Jon Sobrino raised in 2002?
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Sobrino asks: Whose dates, whose suffering matters? "Our" 9/11--but not 9/11/73, the date of the Chilean coup? Or 12/11/81, when 1000 civilians were murdered in El Mozote? "There are many 9/11s that don't exist because they were never entered on the imperial calendar."
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I admit: I wasn't ready to publish Sobrino's book in 2002 but waited til 2004. Still too soon? "Where is God? Let us begin by saying where God is not: in the empire...He is the God of the victims, the God of Jesus, who was also a victim of the empire."
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A favorite, used in a class on Catholic Social Thought. Well received and provocative.
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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