By Danielle LoDuca
The horrific attacks on September 11, 2001 brought to the forefront of my attention that something was terribly wrong. My peaceful fantasy world was shattered that day.
I knew I had to do something, so I tried to better understand the geo-political situation by investigating history, and fervently keeping up with current events.
I really cannot be sure of whether or not I had ever heard of Islam before September 11… but obviously with that abhorrent attack came the knowledge that there was this other religion out there called Islam.
I was not very fond of religion, so although I never believed the attacks were driven by something inherent in Islam, my disdain of religion was really validated when I thought about a religion being related to this atrocity.
This propelled me to embark upon a project I thought would be groundbreaking. I decided to prove all religions were manmade. I was going to do it by methodically comparing them to political philosophies, which I had begun studying that same semester and found strikingly similar to religion. Flawed and conflicting with one another, they provided the perfect medium to show the world what I had come to believe: Religions were human falsifications and religious adherents, dupes.