The terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington DC eloquently prove
my contention that fundamentalist religious fanaticism is one of the most
dangerous factors in human society.
It was heartening, here in Manhattan, to hear the people of this city cry
out for the blood of those who are the cause of these acts of war, as
well as for the punishment of those who shield, support, or otherwise
sympathize with terrorists.
The philosophy of Satanism is clear on such issues.
The Fifth Satanic Statement from "The Satanic Bible" says:
"Satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek!"
And from the the section therein called the Book of Satan:
"7. Hate your enemies with a whole heart, and if a man smite you on one
cheek, SMASH him on the other!; smite him hip and thigh, for
self-preservation is the highest law!"
"9. Give blow for blow, scorn for scorn, doom for doom - with compound
interest liberally added thereunto! Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, aye
four-fold, a hundred-fold!"
Many of the people of this nation now share this point of view.
Yesterday, Americans saw things they hold as precious being shattered.
Terrorists only understand the language of terror, so it is time to speak
to them in like manner and utterly destroy something they hold as being
precious. If the might of the United States makes the price of their acts
too terrible to again consider, only then will future similar deeds be
prevented.
There is precedent in the history of our country. When faced by the
attack on Pearl Harbor and the suicidal fanaticism of Kamikaze pilots,
the United States ultimately leveled two Japanese cities with the most
terrible of weapons. Our forefathers embraced a song called "The Battle
Hymn of the Republic" which has such images as "loosing the lightning of
a terrible swift sword" and for the "trampling out of the vintage where
the grapes of wrath are stored." That is our heritage. May our
contemporaries live up to that standard.
Beast Wishes,
Peter H. Gilmore
