tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post6074452166771196346..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: DestructionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-419184387222563222015-03-01T23:56:02.163-05:002015-03-01T23:56:02.163-05:00Oh, of course, Doug: "'slaughter them utt...Oh, of course, Doug: "'slaughter them utterly' say THE LORD" yada-yada.<br /><br />But the Early Church, following Jesus in the NT, was pacifistic, before Constantine. For several centuries, Christians were willing to DIE, but not to KILL. How different from Crusading Christendom, which we have (esp in the U.S.!) till today. Kyrie eleison...JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-31369942732428467932015-02-28T10:28:36.444-05:002015-02-28T10:28:36.444-05:00Lots of healthy kids play violent video games and ...Lots of healthy kids play violent video games and remain healthy kids (as always). But, the small number of the truly socio-pathic and angry can get ideas and go to Syria.<br /><br />The Quran has its violent passages, but there is no shortage of violence in the Bible. Remember God's commandment to Saul concerning the Amalekites?<br /><br />Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-35832857144035948132015-02-28T00:52:50.863-05:002015-02-28T00:52:50.863-05:00"Perhaps it attracts some alienated young ide..."Perhaps it attracts some alienated young idealists, but it seems to me mostly to attract sociopaths from the West and from Central Asia who relish <b>doing to real people what they do to digital people in games</b>."<br /><br />I posited the same thing over at...I think it was Daily Beast, but was embarrassed to suggest it even as I posted. Surely, millions and millions play violent video games, and wouldn't imagine for a *second* doing such things to real people IRL.<br /><br />And yet, and yet: there IS a violent tradition in the Quran, of "spreading the faith" (i.e., obeisance) through violence (which is absent from the NT, though of course, was later adopted, horribly, by Christendom). <br /><br />Perhaps if you overlay (ala circular set graphs) extreme Wahhabistic Islam, with violent video games, w/ social dislocation (economic and/or personal, per early adulthood), you may get Head-choppers???<br /><br />***<br /><br />Some years ago, I read a book about my favorite art, Byzantine. In it, there were many B&W photos of churches (and their icon'd interiors) that were utterly destroyed in Turkey in the 1920s. I didn't dream we'd see this kind of iconoclasm AGAIN (Of course, 10+ years ago, we already had the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban. F#cking nihilistic f#ckers, the lot of 'em)JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-31550822513925359432015-02-27T17:04:41.619-05:002015-02-27T17:04:41.619-05:00Their horrific actions serve to reinforce the powe...Their horrific actions serve to reinforce the power of art. Thank God for artists!Kittredge Cherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858676733169316noreply@blogger.com