Our sin is that of the Jerusalem of Jeremiah: idolatry. The World Trade Center (the name implies the sin) together with the Pentagon, are quite literally places of worship. There, world domination, monetary and military, is cozened, calculated, paid tribute. . . . Confession of sin, questioning of behavior, submitting to chastisement — these are emotions foreign to the national soul, a lost language of Ur.
— Daniel Berrigan, Lamentations