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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate candidate Roy Moore this year suggested 9/11 might have been punishment for US turning away..
Senate candidate Roy Moore this year suggested 9/11 might have been punishment for US turning away from GodBy Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott, CNN
Updated 4:48 PM ET, Thu September 14, 2017
(CNN)Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore suggested earlier this year that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have happened because the US had distanced itself from God.
Moore, a hardline conservative running against fellow Republican and incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in a runoff primary race, made the comments in February during a speech at the Open Door Baptist Church, a video reviewed by CNN's KFile shows. Moore, the former chief justice of Alabama, quotes verses from the Old Testament's Book of Isaiah, which have been used by some fringe elements of Christianity to suggest that the Bible prophesied the attacks.
"Because you have despised His word and trust in perverseness and oppression, and say thereon ... therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instance,'" Moore said, quoting Isaiah 30:12-13. Then he added: "Sounds a little bit like the Pentagon, whose breaking came suddenly at an instance, doesn't it?"
Moore, continued, "If you think that's coincidence, if you go to verse 25, 'there should be up on every high mountain and upon every hill rivers and streams of water in the day of the great slaughter when the towers will fall.' You know, we've suffered a lot in this country, maybe, just maybe, because we've distanced ourselves from the one that has it within his hands to heal this land."
Later in the same speech, Moore suggested God was upset at the United States because "we legitimize sodomy" and "legitimize abortion."
The Moore campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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Senate candidate Roy Moore this year suggested 9/11 might have been punishment for US turning away.. (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2017
OP
How ironic, given that the planes were flown by crazy religious fundamentalists.
Warren DeMontague
Sep 2017
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Well, George W. Bush had just been installed as president 8 months earlier
I wonder why Moore suddenly has lockjaw about his demented rantings at Open Door? Is he denying God before men?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)2. How ironic, given that the planes were flown by crazy religious fundamentalists.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)3. The Lord works in mysterious ways
trof
(54,256 posts)4. Praise The Lord.