Who Said That?

Who Said That?

" . . . the first place we should look for God in the War on Terror would be in the smouldering ruins of the Twin Towers, in the tears of the widows and children on that terrible day five years ago, and then in the ruins of Baghdad and Basra, the shattered homes and lives of the tens of thousands who have through no fault of their own been in the wrong place at the wrong time as the angry superpower, like a rogue elephant teased by a little dog, has gone on the rampage stamping on everything that moves in the hope of killing the dog by killing everything within reach."

Please leave your guesses in the comments section below!  No google searches!  You must guess!  And don't spoil it for everyone else.

Update on Monday, February 5, 2007 at 05:24PM by Kim Riddlebarger

As some of you guessed, these words come from everybody's favorite Bishop, N. T. Wright ("Where is God in ‘The War on Terror’?"
a public lecture in Durham Cathedral, 9 November 2006).  While Americans can and do differ in their views on the Iraq war, it troubles me when an Anglican bishop--who many consider the foremost expert on Paul--draws a tacky moral equivalence between an act of terror (911) and the US-led (and UN sanctioned, I might add) invasion of Iraq.

Comments

[Albert]

Jimmy Carter!!!

[Albert]

Although on second thought (read) Carter wouldn't spell smoldering with a u!!

Hmmmmmm!

[bart]

his popeness?

[Jeremy]

Barack Hussein Obama.

["lee n. field"]

Hmm. "terrible day 5 years ago" dates it to 2006. "Twin towers" leads me to think it's someone who either uses or buys into mediaspeak. "Angry superpower" means it's probably not someone who wants to be president of the United State.

"Looking for God in the smoldering ruins of the Twin Towers" is such a nonsensical statement, that I doubt it's Jimmy C.

Katherine Jefforts-Schori?

[mholst]

Some apostate Episcopalean. I just can't remember his name. He shows up on Larry King quite often.

[andrewk]

could be the archbish - Rowan W?

[Noah]

sounds like something N.T. Wright might say...

[Joe]

Gotta be Jane Fonda

[Eric]

Sounds like Jim Wallis to me.

[Jeremy]

Ooooooh...was it Robert Schuller?

[Jim Vellenga]

I guess Wallis as well, at least he was the first person to come to mind.

[R.K. Brumbelow]

Our most excellent friend the bishop of Durham.

[timinator]

rick Warren

[AerodynamicPenguin]

I couldn't begin to guess, but I sure agree with what he says.

[David S]

Sounds like a quote out of a Philip Yancey book to me!

[James Duguid]

Sounds a bit like Rabbi Harold Kushner.

[walt]

Noam Chomsky, Jimmy Carter, anyone else in the blame America first crowd.

[zrim]

i knew this sounded familiar; i have read the piece out of which this quote comes, so i know the answer. the piece as a whole is quite interesting.

suffice it to say, some of the above posts are correct.

zrim

[Scott]

Barack Obama