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the only thing that i find interesting about any theology/rhetoric of dark vs. light, sons of evil and sons of heaven, etc, etc....is why people come to beleive in them. the particulars change across cultures, situations, and times, but the outcomes are usually quite similar, including but not limited to extremist violence.
i see this rhetoric a lot. they're hard core, they're fundamentalists, they're unconvincable, they're beyond logic, they'll never stop fighting until we kill 'em... Okay. Maybe, perhaps. But the functional position of those logics is to make it easier for us to consider them a legitimate target of violence.
Which is what those words (the manual) are, flipped around...logics that provide assistance in making us a legitimate target of violence for the Arab world. Is it really more compelling to kill them all, or to figure out how to defuse these logics, to create condititions in which they are not convincing, or offer the best hope?
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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