By Greg Szymanski

The 9/11 truth movement is chugging forward like a freight train unable to reach its final destination, the final stop being to nab the perpetrators who committed this heinous crime of mass murder, killing more than 3,000.

But as the movement takes two steps forward and one step back due to its infiltration by disinformation artists and New World Order thugs, the progress of the “real truth tellers” shouldn’t be underestimated.

For example, there are many esteemed, intelligent and competent university professors putting their jobs and necks on the line, trying to get America to wake-up that 9/11 was an inside government job and that the government story about what happened on that tragic day was bogus.

Furthermore, there have been many activists with blog sites like Phil Jayhan, who have been trying to wake up America for years about the true 9/11 story. Jayhan looks deep into the 9/11 cover-up, even telling people don’t disregard Vatican involvement when looking for the real New World Order perpetrators.

And finally there have been many alternative broadcasters and journalists like Alex Jones, John Stadtmiller, Jeff Rense, Jim Marrs, Webster Tarpley and others who have tried to wake up America about the government’s involvement in 9/11.

Although justice has yet to be served for the more than 3,000 souls who perished, let’s look at some of the positive comments made by a host of professors regarding 9/11 truth.

As you will see, the numbers have swelled in the ranks of academia, showing the 9/11 truth movement is gaining steam as more and more people realize 9/11 was an inside U.S. government job fueled by the Vatican-led New World Order. Although the Vatican’s involvement is not mentioned in the comments below, many will soon come to realize Vatican involvement as more evidence comes forward about the real perpetrators of 9/11.

For the record, the following statements, taking up more than 70 pages, are taken from www.patriotsquestion9/11.com

David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology and Co-director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology. One of the founding thinkers of Process Theology. Recent books include; God, Power, and Evil: A Process Theodicy (2004), Two Great Truths: A New Synthesis of Scientific Naturalism and Christian Faith (2004), Religion and Scientific Naturalism (2000), and Reenchantment without Supernaturalism (2000), Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (1998), Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality (1997).  Editor of the SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought.  Author and editor of several books that question the official account of 9/11, including; The New Pearl Harbor (2004), The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2004),    9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out (2006), Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action (2006), The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God (2006), Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (2007).

Video of Speech 9/14/06: "The official story is false. ... Now why is the official theory an outrageous conspiracy theory?  Because every one of the major elements in it can easily be shown to be false." http://youtube.com/watch?v=-y6OSkDH4nk

Essay: "The 9/11 Commission Report tells many lies about particular issues. This point is implied by my critique's subtitle, 'Omissions and Distortions.' ... Given these two types of lies, it might be wondered how many lies are contained in The 9/11 Commission Report. I do not know. But, deciding to see how many lies I had discussed in my book, I found that I had identified over 100 of them. Once I had made the list, it occurred to me that others might find this summary helpful. Hence this article." [List of 115 lies follows.] http://www.serend

Member Scholars for 9/11 Truth: Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11.  http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Bio:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ray_Griffin

CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/drg_cv.pdf

James Fetzer, PhD

James Fetzer, PhD – Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota.  Former Captain, U.S. Marine Corps.  He has published more than 100 articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, and edited over 20 books on the philosophy of science, the theory of knowledge, and the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, including:   Foundations of Philosophy of Science: Recent Developments (1993), Minds and Machines : Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (1997), Philosophy, Mind, and Cognitive Inquiry, Resources for Understanding Mental Processes (2001), Computers and Cognition: Why Minds are not Machines (2002), Consciousness Evolving (Advances in Consciousness Research) (2002), Science, Explanation, and Rationality: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel (2003), The Evolution of Intelligence (2004), Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science (2007).

Essay 9/11: Rational Beliefs are not Paranoid 12/8/06:

"The impact of the planes cannot have caused enough damage to bring the [World Trade Center] buildings down, since the buildings were designed to withstand them (as Frank De Martini, the project manager, has observed), the planes that hit were very similar to those they were designed to withstand, and they continued to stand after those impacts with negligible effects. ...

WTC-7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories, and not hit by an airplane] came down in a classic controlled demolition at 5:20 PM/ET after Larry Silverstein suggested the best thing to do might be to "pull it", displaying all the characteristics of classic controlled demolitions: a complete, abrupt, and total collapse into its own footprint, where the floors are all falling at the same time, and so forth, an event so embarrassing to the official account that it is not even mentioned in THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT.

The hit point at the Pentagon was too small to accommodate a 100-ton airliner with a 125-foot wingspan and a tail that stands 44 feet above the ground; the kind and quantity of debris was wrong for a Boeing 757: no wings, no fuselage, no seats, no bodies, no luggage, no tail! Which means that the building was not hit by a Boeing 757. ...

There are more, especially about the alleged hijackers, including that they were not competent to fly the planes and their names were not on any passenger manifest. Several have turned up alive and well and living in the Middle East. The government has not even produced their tickets as evidence that they actually could have boarded the aircraft they are alleged to have hijacked. Did Osama call from a cave in Afghanistan and charge them to his MasterCard?" http://www.scholarsfor911truth

Co-founder Scholars for 9/11 Truth: Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fetzer

Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD

Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology, Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union.  Author and editor of numerous books on feminism and religion, including; Sexism and God-Talk: Towards a Feminist Theology (1993), In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (1996), Women and Redemption: A Theological History (1998), Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans (2000), Christianity and the Making of the Modern Family (2001), The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2002), Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to "Radical Orthodoxy" (2006),  Encyclopedia of Women And Religion in North America (2006).

Essay: "Until recently I dismissed the suggestions that the Bush administration might have been complicit in allowing 9/11 to happen as groundless "conspiracy theory." ... Thus it was with some skepticism that I agreed to read the new book written by David Ray Griffin ... that argues the case for just such complicity ... The New Pearl Harbor. ...

Griffin writes in a precise and careful fashion, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. He argues for a high probability for the Bush's administrations complicity with allowing and facilitating the attacks, based not on any one conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer accumulation of all of the data. He concludes by calling for a genuinely independent investigative effort that would examine all this evidence. ...

I personally found Griffin's book both convincing and chilling. If the complicity of the Bush Administration to which he points is true, then Americans have a far greater problem on their hands than even the more ardent anti-war critics have imagined. If the administration that would do this, what else would they do to maintain and expand their power?" http://www.thewitness.org

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    

"We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.

Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.

The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Bio:http://www.cgu.edu/pages/3563.asp

John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD

John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology . One of the founding philosophers of Process Theology.  Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on religion, including; Biblical Preaching on the Death of Jesus (1989), The Structure of Christian Existence (1990), For the Common Good co-authored with Herman Daly and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (1991), Sustaining the Common Good : A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy (1994), Christ in a Pluralistic Age (1999), Speaking of Religion & Politics (2000), God and the World (2001), Essentials of Christian Theology (2003),.The Call of the Spirit: Process Spirituality in a Relational World (2005).  Co-editor of 911 and American Empire (Vol II) – Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out (2006).

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    

"We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.

Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.

The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Cobb%2C_Jr.

CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/cobb_cv.pdf

Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD

 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., PhD – President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University.  Former Dean, Vanderbilt Divinity School.  Ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Congregational.  Author of Christian Identity and Theological Education (1985), Beyond Clericalism: The Congregation As a Focus for Theological Education (1988), Theology and the University (1991), The Theological Work of the University Scholar (1992).

Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor ought to be read by any American who values our democracy and understands the importance of retaining the basic trust of the people for any such democracy to survive over time." http://physics911.ca

Bio: http://www.uts.columbia.edu/index.php?id=319

John McMurtry, PhD

John McMurtry, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and University Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph.  Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  Author of six books dealing with public policy issues, including: Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy, and Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market As an Ethical System.

Contributor to 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out 8/23/06: "The documented details that expose 9/11 denial will not be repeated here, because this volume and others have already reported them.  They are impressively massive in confirming – and are not balanced by any facts disconfirming – the long open pathway to the attacks and the blocking of all independent inquiry since then."

Signatory: Petition For An Independent International 9/11 Truth Commission. "[T]he Bush administration has never offered a detailed and documented account of its claims about the events of 9-11 which have allegedly revolutionized human affairs. Nor has it explained obvious and serious discrepancies in its own statements and actions. No systematic proof has ever been published or offered as to who the terrorists were, how they operated, where they came from, and why they were not stopped. ...

The Kean-Hamilton panel’s limited funding from Congress makes a mockery of the tragedy of 9-11, considering that it is only a small fraction of the huge sums spent to investigate Bill Clinton.

We therefore call upon statesmen, thinkers, journalists, investigators, artists, scientists, jurists, academics, humanitarians, religious leaders, activists and other eminent personalities from around the world to form an Independent International Truth Commission dedicated to preventing unproven assertions about 9-11 from setting the stage for a new world conflagration." http://iitc.911review.org/

Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth  Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Bio: http://www.uoguelph.ca/philosophy/faculty

Douglas Sturm, PhD

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Douglas Sturm, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and Political Science, Bucknell University.  Author of Solidarity and Suffering: Toward a Politics of Relationality (1998), Belonging Together: Faith and Politics in a Relational World (2003).

Endorsement of The New Pearl Harbor: "That 9/11 has become a defining moment in our history cannot be gainsaid. But its exact significance is an exceedingly contentious question notwithstanding the seeming clarity of prevailing accounts. David Ray Griffin deconstructs those accounts with a host of unresolved puzzles strongly suggestive of some sort of culpable complicity by US officials in the event. His book presents an incontrovertible argument of the need for a genuinely full and independent investigation of that infamous day." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    

"We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.

Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.

The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Carter Heyward, PhD

Carter Heyward, PhD – Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA.  Author of Saving Jesus from Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What It Means to Be Christian (1998), A Priest Forever: One Woman's Controversial Ordination in the Episcopal Church (1999), When Boundaries Betray Us (2000), Staying Power: Reflections on Gender, Justice, and Compassion (2001), God in the Balance: Christian Spirituality in Times of Terror (2002).

Endorsement Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action: "Are we brave enough to read this nerve-wracking book, one of the most important theological texts of our time? Rooted in the longstanding belief that Christians share responsibility for shaping a more justice-loving world, Griffin makes a strong case that the real “conspiracy theory” about 9/11 is the Bush Administration’s silly notion that nineteen young Arab men could have pulled it off. Griffin helps us wrestle with questions that are almost too much to bear, yet which may empower us, if we dare, to build a more truthful and, over time, more deeply moral nation and world." http://www.miraesoft.com

Bio: http://www.eds.edu/sec.asp?cat=78&page=74

Rev. Gerald H. Slusser, PhD

Rev. Gerald H. Slusser, PhD - Professor Emeritus, Theology and Education, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis.  Past President, Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education.  Author or co-author of From Jung to Jesus: Myth and Consciousness in the New Testament (1986), Technology: The God That Failed: The Environmental Catastrophe (1971), A Christian Look at Secular Society (1968), A Dynamic Approach to Church Education (1968), The Local Church in Transition; Theology,Education,and Ministry (1964).

Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/12/04: "A new book written by David Ray Griffin, a professor of theology at Claremont School of Theology, raises significant and pungent questions about the involvement of the Bush administration in the tragedy now known as 9/11. This book reads like a fine detective novel. Nonetheless, its author has done his research very carefully and it is in the marshalling of the evidence that the suspense is created. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of this book in bringing to our attention facts that challenge any attempt of the administration to explain away its responsibility, or even complicity, in the events of 9/11. Whatever you now think of the Bush administration and its handling of 9/11, this book is must, essential reading because it presents in careful, scholarly manner facts that have to be dealt with in any further analysis of the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath, the war on terrorism. ...

In closing this review I want to make two comments. First is to commend Professor Griffin for an independent, careful and systematic examination of the evidence. He has set before us sufficient data on which to base an impartial opinion of the 9/11 event. Secondly, the conclusions of this book make it abundantly clear that we have the greatest problem in our history on our hands, far greater than the Nixon Watergate scandal. We seem to be being led like sheep into an imperialist stance in which America is to rule the world for the sake of American business and profit." http://www.amazon.com

Helen L. Goggin, EdD

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Helen L. Goggin, EdD – Professor Emerita of Religious Education, Knox College, University of Toronto.  Contributing author, Theologies of Religious Education (1995).  Author, Study Guide to A New 95 Theses (2004).

Review of The New Pearl Harbor 4/3/04: "David Ray Griffin, a professor at the School of Theology at Claremont is a respected scholar and researcher in his field who has an interest in the workings of government. Though an academic, he has written a very accessible book on the most complex event in the recent history of the United States - The New Pearl Harbor, Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11.  The book makes no accusations but presents the accumulative questions and the events on which they are based in a manner that is compellingly persuasive of the need for a new fully independent investigative commission to be struck; this time to look at the time prior to, during the day itself and since that terrible day.  In total the questions and events ask - was the Bush administration complicit in the events of 9/11?  Yes, no one wants to believe such a possibility but the unanswered questions are startling. ... This is the most disturbing and chilling book I have ever read.  In an election year these questions need to be answered not only for the American people but also for your neighbours next door in Canada.  This is a must read !" http://www.amazon.com

Review of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions 5/5/05: "David Ray Griffin is a retired professor of theology and philosophy at the School of Theology in Claremont, California.  He is a respected scholar and researcher in the academic world.  However this book and his earlier one, The New Pearl Harbor, are essential reading for both Americans and Canadians. David raises many questions about the official account of 9/11 in his first book and now in this second one he goes through the findings of the 9/11 Commission which he believes both ignored and distorted the mounting evidence that the official story cannot be the correct one. ... Griffin spoke to an assembly at the University of Wisconsin recently and the address was shown on C-SPAN.  For him there is little doubt now that the Bush Administration was involved - why - probably the oil in Iraq. The responses to the address were shock and surprise but the evidence presented was overwhelming.  It is urgent for the people of both United States and Canada to at least become aware of the evidence presented in these two books.  People need to make up their own minds but the unanswered questions are deeply troubling." http://www.amazon.com

Robert S. Ellwood, PhD

Gracia Fay Ellwood, PhD

Robert S. Ellwood, PhD and Gracia Fay Ellwood, PhD

Robert S. Ellwood, PhD – Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion, University of Southern California.  Currently Faculty Member, Holmes Institute.  Author and editor of over 25 books on religion, including; The Encyclopedia of World Religions (1998 - 2007), Religions of the World (9th Edition 2004), The Dictionary of Religion (2001), 1950: Crossroads of American Religious Life (2000), The Politics of Myth (1999), Mysticism and Religion (1998), The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace (1997), Many People, Many Faiths (1995), The Sixties Spiritual Awakening (1994). 

Gracia Fay Ellwood, PhD – Former Instructor, Evansville University and California State University at Long Beach.  Author of The Uttermost Deep (2001) Batter My Heart (1988).  Editor of The Peaceable Table.

Review of The New Pearl Harbor 3/28/04: " 'Life is short, and the list of conspiracy theories is long,' says this author. So, why does he ask us to spend time on yet another supposedly far-out tale? A good initial reason is that he is David Ray Griffin, known from his other works to be an extremely meticulous and disciplined scholar and researcher. Carefully scrutinizing the evidence of the attacks of 9-11, the official explanations, and the work of critics, he presents the reader with numerous and disturbing questions. ...

Griffin does not claim to have the final answers, only to have made a strong case that an independent, well-funded investigation is desperately needed. He makes his case a hundred times over." http://www.amazon.com

Review of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions 5/13/05: "Like its predecessor The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin's The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions challenges the received explanation of the 9/11 attacks--now given official sanction by the Commission--with an Everest of evidence showing the probable complicity of high-level members of the military and the present Administration. ...

In the Introduction Griffin gives a key reason why the supposedly impartial Commission, staffed by five Republicans and five Democrats, carried out a highly partial investigation and produced a report that amounts to a coverup. A pivotal reason for this is that the commission's executive director, who "pick[ed] the areas of investigation, the briefing materials, the topics for hearings, the witnesses, and the lines of questioning . . ." was Philip Zelikow, who was deeply involved in the Bush administration. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that of the two main competing theories explaining 9/11--that Al Qaeda terrorists carried out the attacks alone, or that crucial US military and government figures were complicit--only the first is examined. The second theory is not considered, the evidence for it ignored or distorted." http://www.amazon.com

Robert S. Ellwood Bio: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~ellwood/

Gracia Fay Ellwood Bio: http://www.search.com/reference

Richard A. Horsley, PhD

Richard A. Horsley, PhD – Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Former Chair of the Department of the Study of Religion, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Author of more than fifty articles and a dozen books on religion and society, including; Christian Origins: A People's History Of Christianity (2006), Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder (2002).

Endorsement of Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11  7/1/06: "Do American Christians want the United States to act like the New Rome, invading other countries to impose its imperial rule and its control of other peoples’ resources? That, however, is just what the US is doing, increasingly so since 9/11, explains David Griffin. In this gripping summary of evidence for the truth behind 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission report, Griffin makes a compelling case that the imperial practices of the American government have become a destructive force in the world. And he clarifies the biblical and theological basis for Christians to challenge the resurgent American imperialism that often claims divine blessing on its destructive actions." http://www.amazon.com

James Goulding, PhD

 James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at MacMurray College.  Adjunct Member of Religious Studies Faculty at Edgewood College.

Member: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth.

Bio: http://religst.edgewood.edu/FACULTY

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD

Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD – Professor Emerita of Theology and Co-director of the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology.  Considered one of the leading philosophers of Process Theology.  Former professor of systematic theology and dean of Wesley Theological Seminary. Visiting professor at Vanderbilt University in 1996 and 1999, and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. Author of The End of Evil (1988), God-Christ-Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology (1989), The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology (1995), In God's Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer (1996), The Whispered Word: A Theology of Preaching (1999), Divinity and Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism (2003).

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    

"We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.

Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.

The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Hewitt_Suchocki

CV: http://www.ctr4process.org/about/CoDirectors/mhs_cv.pdf

Rev. David P. Polk, PhD

Rev. David P. Polk, PhD – Former Vice President of Christian Board of Publication and Editor-in-Chief of Chalice Press 1990 - 2003 (ret).  Former Harold Glen Brown Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.  Also taught at Lexington Theological Seminary and at Coe, Mt. Mercy, and Drury Colleges. Former Senior Pastor, First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on religion, including; Chalice Praise: Pew Edition (2004), Shaken Foundations: Sermons from America's Pulpits After the Terrorist Attacks (2001), You Might Be a Disciple If (1997), And the Angels Wept: From the Pulpits of Oklahoma City After the Bombing (1995), Now What's a Christian to Do? (1994), If Only I Had Known: Dramatic Monologues for Advent and Lent (1994),  Partners in Prayer (1996), Education of the Practical Theologian (1990), On the Way to God: An Exploration into the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg (1988).

Review of Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 10/9/06: "Discovering the courage to confront a demonic American empire  This is truly two books in one. Each half is vitally important to all Americans, but especially to those of us who wish to be identified as Christians.

Part I explores the question of how complicit members of the Bush administration were in the tragedy of 9/11. ...

In Part I he [David Ray Griffin] offers compelling evidence that 9/11 was an American "false flag" operation in which previously planted explosives allowed the THREE towers of the World Trade Center--including one building not even struck by the passenger jets! [WTC 7 570 feet tall, 47 stories]--to implode in the manner of controlled demolitions. ... The point is that this is a vital issue about which we Americans ought to be crying loudly to be examined by some subsequent commission of inquiry that will not simply gloss over or totally ignore discrepancies, inconsistencies in testimony, and unexamined facts." http://www.amazon.com

Graeme MacQueen, PhD

Graeme MacQueen, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies and founding Director, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University (ret).

Interview 11/19/06: "... there’s no way those 3 towers were brought down by planes, jet fuel and fire. One tower, maybe. A structural flaw in the tower, a set of coincidences. Two towers — we’re getting into a highly unlikely situation, even though their construction was similar, because the planes hit in different ways. Three towers (including WTC 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories] now, which wasn't hit by a plane), the odds against this are astronomical." http://americanbuddhist.net/node/3390

Essay 8/21/06: Regarding the recorded oral accounts of 503 members of the Fire Department of New York taken by the Department shortly after 9/11.  "Claims that explosions contributed to the collapses were made on 9/11 and have persisted, but studies supportive of the U.S. government’s account of events have ignored or denied these claims. ...

We begin by facing the simple number of individual witnesses (118) and the even greater number of references, direct or indirect, in their accounts to explosions. We next have to deal with the rich, mutually supportive detail of these accounts. ... I cannot read this material without being struck by the ways in which the witnesses’ testimony is not merely cumulative but complementary and multidimensional. ...

It appears (references are somewhat unclear) that the Commission did, in fact, make fairly extensive use of the oral histories. ... But what about all the references in the FDNY material to explosions? The Report makes no mention of them." http://www.journalof911studies.com

Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice   Association Statement: "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice is a non-partisan organization consisting of independent researchers and activists engaged in uncovering the true nature of the September 11, 2001 attacks."

Bio: Appears at the end of the article at http://americanbuddhist

David Sprintzen, PhD

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David Sprintzen, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Co-director, Institute for Sustainable Development, C.W. Post College at Long Island University. Founder and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.

Statement to this website 1/9/07: "I believe there are many serious unanswered questions about 9/11 that call out for a complete, independent investigation, without pre-judging the results of such an investigation. The official 9/11 Commission report is not credible."

Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Bio: BA from Queens College.  MA & Ph.D. from Penn State. Author of Camus; A Critical Examination and Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation.   Founder and Co-Chair for 20 years, and currently Secretary of the Long Island Progressive Coalition.  Board member of Citizen Action of New York.  Founder and former co-Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University.

Kerry S. Walters, PhD

Kerry S. Walters, PhD – William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Gettysburg College.  Co-founder of the Center for Nonviolent Living, a regional grassroots peace organization.  Director of PeaceWay: A Ministry of Christian Nonviolence.  Co-editor of Episcopal Peace Witness the national quarterly of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. Author, co-author and editor of numerous books on philosophy and ethics, including; Merciful Meekness: Becoming A Spiritually Integrated Person (2004), Jacob's Hip: Finding God in an Anxious Age (2003), Finding Perfect Joy With St. Francis of Assisi (2002), Growing God: A Guide for Spiritual Gardeners (2002), Rufus Jones: Essential Writings (2001), Godlust: Facing the Demonic, Embracing the Divine (2000), Benjamin Franklin and His Gods (1998), Ethical Vegetarianism (1999), Re-Thinking Reason - New Perspectives in Critical Thinking (1994), Rational Infidels: The American Deists (1992)

Review of The New Pearl Harbor 3/17/04: "We ignore this book at our peril.  I've just spent an entire night and part of a day rereading and rereading Professor Griffin's thoroughly researched, judiciously argued, and incredibly disturbing book. Griffin takes on the task of investigating the official account of the 9/11 attacks, asking questions that beg to be asked, ferreting out inconsistencies in White House, Pentagon, and State Department reports, analyzing possible scenarios, and asking what kinds of evidence would properly address unanswered questions.

Griffin invites the reader to examine two possible explanations to account for the inconsistencies: the "incompetence" theory and the "complicity" theory. The former rests on the assumption that stupid mistakes were made both before and after the attack. The latter rests on the assumption that false official accounts were made about advance notice of the attacks and/or that after-the-fact obstruction of investigations took place. Griffin's conclusion is that it's reasonable to suppose that complicity rather than incompetence is the more likely explanation, and he painstakingly makes his case by examining five major challenges to the official version of what happened.

On the second anniversary of 9/11, Donald Rumsfeld made the shocking public claim that the attacks were really blessings "in disguise" (from the book's forward by Richard Falk). Rumsfeld's point was that the US was motivated by the attacks to ramp up its military strength; this was the "blessing" he referred to. But if even part of Griffin's analysis is on the money, the "blessing," which has led to great subsequent loss of life and expenditures of monies in Afghanistan and Iraq, is built on a deception.  A frightening, but not implausible, possibility." http://www.amazon.com

Bio: http://www.gettysburg.edu

John Milbank, PhD

John Milbank, PhD – Professor in Religion, Politics, and Ethics, University of Nottingham.  Former Francis Ball Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Virginia . Author, co-author, and editor of numerous books on philosophy and religion, including; Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (1993), The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language and Culture (1997), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1998), Truth in Aquinas (2000), Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon (2003), Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty (2003), The Suspended Middle: Henri De Lubac And The Debate Concerning The Supernatural (2005).

Essay 5/16/06: "As to the precise causes of 9/11 I remain entirely agnostic. It certainly appears that while certain strange circumstances surrounding that event have been satisfactorily explained, certain others have not been accounted for in any unequivocally emphatic way (and in particular the tardiness of response to the planes’ initial capture). Quite definitely we can say that on the part of someone a terroristic conspiracy was fomented and that who that someone really was is not as yet entirely apparent.

I must stress however, that there is as yet absolutely no clear evidence for such a supposition and indeed that there is every reason for scepticism in the face of it. But on the other hand, there remains a case to answer and the refusal of nearly all public organs to press this point remains striking." MS Word doc located at http://www.theologyphilosophycentre.co

Bio: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

Sean Kelly, PhD

Sean Kelly, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies.

Signatory: Petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11:    

"We want truthful answers to question. …  As Americans of conscience, we ask for four things:

An immediate investigation by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Immediate investigation in Congressional Hearings.

Media attention to scrutinize and investigate the evidence.

The formation of a truly independent citizens-based inquiry." http://www.911truth.org/article.php

Bio: http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/kelly.html

Kevin Barrett, PhD

Kevin Barrett, PhD – Lecturer on Islamic Studies, University of Wisconsin.  Co-editor of 911 and American Empire (Vol II) – Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out .

Co-founder: Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths in pursuit of 9/11 truth. 

Member: Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven  Association Statement: "We have found solid scientific grounds on which to question the interpretation put upon the events of September 11, 2001 by the Office of the President of the United States of America and subsequently propagated by the major media of western nations."

Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth  Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

Richard Curtis, PhD

Richard Curtis, PhD – Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at a variety of Seattle area colleges.

Guest Editorial "9/11 Commission Report is a Lie" Seattle Post-Intelligencer 5/16/06: "The commission's conclusions and recommendations should be totally rejected. Its story is full of lies, distortions and omissions of fact." http://seattlepi.nwsource

Speech 7/1/06: "... there is no evidence to support the commonly held belief that 19 Arab religious fanatics were responsible for the attack of 9/11.  And further, the evidence we do have strongly supports the alternative theory that the attacks were actually an inside job. ... The government and our media have endlessly repeated a Big Lie about 9/11.  The official version of this lie was published in a book called The 9/11 Commission Report." http://72.14.253.104

Member: Scholars for 9/11 Truth  Association Statement: "Research proves the current administration has been dishonest about what happened in New York and Washington, D.C. The World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the government's official story about the attack on the Pentagon."

James K. Powell II, PhD

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James K. Powell II, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies, Department of the Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin.

Essay: "... having seen some 12 times the collapse of Building 7 [570 feet tall, 47 stories, and not hit by an airplane] throughout these videos, it has dawned upon me what a dupe I have been. Everyone has been. The DVD captures news anchors and experts at the time commenting at how like a demolition job the destruction seemed. In the videos we see an official deciding whether to "pull it" meaning Building 7. From whatever source, I urge skeptics to watch building 7 just make a free fall. Compare the destruction of these buildings with that of the Madrid Hotel that raged with fires but still did not fall.

It is up to citizens to investigate the smoke that points to the fire. As Franklin indicated, those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither." http://mujca.com/powell.htm

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A. K. Dewdney, PhD