@allanjenkins21 What, then, ultimately distinguishes the psychosis of holy Crusader from that of Jihadist? Answer: nothing. Both, the demonic parody. Mirrors, one of the other.
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Two-tweet excerpt from tweet thread: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge 1/ “To read about Slahi’s repetitive and futile brutalising is to shed the comforting illusion that the most vehement partisans of holy war flourish in the ravaged landscapes of south and west Asia. Such fanatics also lurk among the US’s best and the brightest...” Nick Routledge Nick_routledge 2/ “Monstrosities such as Guantánamo & Abu Ghraib became inevitable when the west’s own holy warriors, rejecting all conventional norms of war & conflict, chose to stigmatise a range of human beings as savage beasts, who could only be annihilated or banished to a hellish limbo.”
@jbralston 2/ Perhaps the interruptive event of a prophet turns upon their embodiment of transcendent political genius - their very life, a concrete locus through which God enters history; an act of love from beyond, grounding a breakthrough into a unifying, inclusive perception of reality.
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The problem is not principally one of cognitive inadequacy faced with incomparable hugeness, but of a pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility. Anyone who helps me better to understand God whose loving communication with me is a certain breaking through my own structural hostility to God, whose befriending of me starts with me as his enemy, and anyone who helps my Church live out this discovery of a completely unknown love which traverses our hostility, is my friend. James Alison