Terror in the Mind of God: Mark Juergensmeyer (video)

[greyl]

I'm reading the very interesting book, and found this vid of the author speaking at UC Santa Barbara.

Mark Juergensmeyer, Director of UCSB's Global and International Studies Institute, talks about his recent trip to Iraq and his interviews with Sunni clergy and other Islamic political leaders, as part of his ongoing study of the global rise of religious violence. Professor Juergensmeyer attempts to explain how humans can translate their religious beliefs into acts of violence.
google vid - 59 min 55 sec

[greyl]

1. bump

maybe it needs better music

[greyl]

2. .

[Bolo Boffin]

3. You're trying to suggest that religious extremists have a capacity for violence, aren't you?

Now what could that have to do with 9/11?

[Kingshakabobo]

4. Do you mean cave-men?

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Oh, my God, I just realized...

...the ubiquitous nature of the caveman rhetoric can only mean one thing: the corporation that is pumping out all of these CTs is GEICO!

[greyl]

5. It's very complicated when all sides of the culture wars are led

by believers in opposing, yet genetically related, salvationist religions.
But, yes.