"This is fundamentally a religious war...Under no circumstances should we forget this enmity between us and the infidels. For, the enmity is based on creed." -Osama bin Laden"To win a gunfight, first you have to bring a gun, and to win a religious war, you had better know something about religion...None of the political leaders of the West, and few of the West's opinion leaders, comprehend this." -Spengler
"The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue." -Psalmist
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." -St. Paul
Have a great weekend, everybody.
-BC
1 comment:
Interesting how you begin with a quote from bin Laden, and end with a quote from the "bin Laden" of the 1st century, Paul (former Christian hater & persecutor, Saul).
I also found the picture timely considering the book I just picked up, The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis. In the preface, he had this to say about angels and demons...
...a belief in angels, whether good or evil, does not mean a belief in either as they are represented in art and literature. Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats. They are given wings at all in order to suggest the swiftness of unimpeded intellectual energy. They are given human form because man is the only rational creature we know. Creatures higher in the natural order than ourselves, either incorporeal or animating bodies of a sort we cannot experience, must be represented symbolically if they are to be represented at all.
On the next page he says...
I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.
One last note related to bin Laden and his worldview... I just finished the book "Islam and Terrorism" by Dr. Mark Gabriel. Decent book for someone who is looking for insights from a credible resource. Dr. Gabriel taught Islamic history at Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt (an authoritative voice in Islam). Thanks bjc!
tc
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