Terror in the Mind of God and Soldiers For Christ

and Anti-terrorism Workshop 2015-03-12

make a terrorist.

Terrorists (unlike serial killers) are not clinical socio-paths

(virtually none of the more noteworthy ones). It is more a question of social psychology, responding to certain group situations.

Religion usually needs to be fused with “violent expression” of social and political aspirations and the groups perception of itself as the sole defender of righteousness in an otherwise corrupt world.

“Even those acts that appear to be solo ventures conducted by rogue activists often have networks of support and ideologies of validation behind them.”

structures” (Bourdieu).
Small and exclusivist.
They perceive themselves as already under attack

and see violence as a form of retribution.
More difficult to negotiate with in terms of anti-terrorism.
It is harder to use the “carrot and the stick method” that can be more successfully applied to the ethno-separatists or borderline cases where religion is just “a part of the equation” (Ireland).
Seek to radically overturn the evil world order, perceive themselves as a part of a cosmic conflict between the forces of good and the forces of evil.

is his reading of those authors so selective?

No separation of

church from the state – Reconstruction Theology.

Postmillennialism (Christ after a 1000 years of religious rule).

Why postmillennialists tend to be more inclined towards violence than premillennialists?

Reconstruction theology.

“The Turner Diaries” by William Pierce as an inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5jb28H7ZO4