The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain
1998 Viking-Penguin
432 pages

Of all the sacred cows allowed to roam unimpeded in our culture, few are as revered as literacy. Its benefits have been so incontestable that in the five millennia since the advent of the written word numerous poets and writers have extolled its virtues. Few paused to consider its costs. Sophocles once warned, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse." The invention of writing was vast; this book will investigate the curse. --Leonard Shlain

Before I begin this review in earnest, I'd like to explain why I feel this book by vascular surgeon Leonard Shlain is so momentous. It is not a new book, but itis my favorite book, one that I would like to see become required study at every college and university on our planet. When I first read it six years ago, I couldn't have been more astonished and thrilled. Please understand that this is a graybeard historian telling you this, one who spent half his life searching for the "Holy Grail" that is contained within the pages of this book.

If Mr. Cockburn would investigate the science of 9/11 and not some ridiculous claims he would be a real journalists. He cites numerous lies, like there being a picture that shows and outline of the wings at the pentagon, would you like to share this never before seen photo? while the government is at it they should just release one of the five or so surveillence videos that caught the entire impact (not just 5 frames like america has been so privledged to see) well then, where is the plane? the seats, the passengers, how was this plane able to not skid on the ground and manage to take out several light poles and leave no huge pieces of wreakage outside the pentagon? Why is it that the 5 frames released by the pentagon don't show a plane and instead give more evidence to it not being a plane crashing into the pentagon, being it created a massive extremely hot fireball and didn't leave much of a fire like the jet fuel would of done......why is it that you do not give email addresses of your writers? This journalists attempted hit piece on the growing 9.11 truth movement is riddled with holes and doesn't make any solid points.

The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

This constitutional guarantee is often known as the "first freedom."
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