Anton Bruckner
Puritan Board Professor
brainwashing causes terrorism.
Poverty also at times causes violent outburst on the privileged classes, this we term revolution if successful, terrorism and rebellion if not successful. Notable revolutions that were perceived as terrorist acts before their successes were the American and French Revolutions. Even the Chinese Revolution.
What is interesting about this modern phenomenon of terrorism, is that it is radically religious in nature, whereas the American, French and Russian Revolutions were humanistically philosophic and economic in nature.
It will be interesting to see if the Islamic terrorists get any degree of success, if it will be relabled as a Revolutionaries. Arafat got close by calling himself a freedom fighter at the U.N, unfortunately he died before his cause ever became a success, and thus is still relegated to the "terrorist category" by many, and as a Revolutionary Freedom Fighter by others..
What is even more interesting is to justify their cause some Islamic terrorist and sympathizers are using the violent actions that establish the Modern Israel as a state by radical Zionists as examples of why they too should use similar and more extreme actions.
While radical zionists of the Irgun group bombed the King David Hotel and other such in Post WW2/Pre Israeli Palestine, it never reached to the extent of suicide bombings and hijackings.
Ok I started off with my ramblings. How about if someone define to me what makes a Revolution Just? How is a Christian to respond to a revolution in lieu of Romans 13?
Poverty also at times causes violent outburst on the privileged classes, this we term revolution if successful, terrorism and rebellion if not successful. Notable revolutions that were perceived as terrorist acts before their successes were the American and French Revolutions. Even the Chinese Revolution.
What is interesting about this modern phenomenon of terrorism, is that it is radically religious in nature, whereas the American, French and Russian Revolutions were humanistically philosophic and economic in nature.
It will be interesting to see if the Islamic terrorists get any degree of success, if it will be relabled as a Revolutionaries. Arafat got close by calling himself a freedom fighter at the U.N, unfortunately he died before his cause ever became a success, and thus is still relegated to the "terrorist category" by many, and as a Revolutionary Freedom Fighter by others..
What is even more interesting is to justify their cause some Islamic terrorist and sympathizers are using the violent actions that establish the Modern Israel as a state by radical Zionists as examples of why they too should use similar and more extreme actions.
While radical zionists of the Irgun group bombed the King David Hotel and other such in Post WW2/Pre Israeli Palestine, it never reached to the extent of suicide bombings and hijackings.
Ok I started off with my ramblings. How about if someone define to me what makes a Revolution Just? How is a Christian to respond to a revolution in lieu of Romans 13?