Fifteen years ago, over 3000 innocent Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack. Yet it seems we have learned many wrong lessons from that atrocity: our government has grown more tyrannical, our liberties have been stripped away, the Middle East is more dangerous, and we are all less safe.
The first wrong lesson we learned is the false idea that Muslim terrorists are the greatest threat to American lives. By learning that lesson, we have reordered our lives and surrendered our freedom.
Yet it is simply untrue that terrorism is a significant threat to our lives. In that one day, the terrorists killed almost as many innocent Americans as we kill every day, all year, for the past 43 years.
Indeed, since 2000, terrorists have not managed to kill combined more innocent American civilians than we kill every single day in our abortion mills.
Our perspective of what is the truly monstrous danger is completely gone. Our ability to accurately gauge relative evil has left us. We run about hysterically over the terrorist menace, when the overwhelming number of innocent lives are killed by American doctors and lawyers and nurses and judges and politicians right under our noses, every single day, year in and year out.
Objectively, the greater evil is not the terrorists. The greater evil is Americans.
Much is made of how the terrorists scream "allahu akbar" as they slaughter their victims, but we have our own versions of reverence to our false gods of murder. We do not scream them, but we repeat them in subdued, reasonable tones: "the rule of law" and "respect for the decisions of the Supreme Court."
Loyalty to our nation's false gods is literally killing us.