ISIS/Other Extremists Have NOTHING To Offer Anyone Except Extreme Living Conditions.

[TheMastersNemesis]

ISIS, the Taliban, Al Queda, and other fundamentalists extremists which includes radical Christians have nothing to offer any one. Very few people want to live in the 6th century with sadistic, mean and cruel religious rules. The only way these organizations and their leaders have to get people to comply is with brute force, murder, intimidation, mass execution and terrorism.

We all remember the purity of the Khmer Rouge that killed so many people in Cambodia. There agenda was political purity while the latest terrorists are pursuing some sort of ancient religious purity. The results are the same. Death and misery for millions.

Jihadists and their ilk are angry they cannot rule over others and cannot force them to believe and practice as they do. In some ways our own religious right are cousins to the jihadists. They may not be doing big massacres, but they use similar intimidation tactics as the terrorists. And they manipulate the political system for their gain.

Somehow living a life dictated by some fictional fantasy book is absurd and dangerous.

[eridani]

1. They have revenge to offer, unfortunately n/t

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. They Want To Turn Existence Into A Prison For Everyone On. It Is About Brute Power Not Religion.

[eridani]

3. True, but the basic script is getting even with an "other," imaginary or not n/t

[Fumesucker]

4. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. -John Milton, Paradise Lost

Not my own philosophy but it's a damn popular sentiment in some quarters.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. as voiced by the character Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost -- not Milton's quote, per se. nt