September 11 And The Impotence Of Secularism
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September 11 And The Impotence Of Secularism

Like all tragedies that befall human civilization, we go back to the moral categories we’re told that secularism moved us on from.

Andrew T. Walker

The first thing that always comes up when talking about September 11, 2001, is: Where were you when you heard the news?

It was a weird day for me. A 16-year-old sophomore, I was out of school that morning. Having suffered massive injuries from a snow skiing accident in April of 2001, I was driving to Springfield, Illinois, on Interstate 72 to visit a surgeon for a follow-up appointment with my mother.

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