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Article Excerpt
Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche, by Shadia B. Drury (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 1-4039. 6404-1) 211 pp. incl. notes, references, index. Cloth $55.00.
Imagine a religious zealot who triggers the collapse of a monumental public structure, snuffing out roughly three thousand innocent lives. Were you thinking of Mohammed Atta and the World Trade Center? Think ... older.
Think of Samson.
Samson's fabled destruction of the Philistine temple is detailed in Judges 16:26-31, right down to the number of victims. If Mohammed Atta was a terrorist, wonders Shadia L. Drury, wasn't Samson too? And if Samson was a hero....
[I]f we accept the view that Samson was an instrument of God, then we must accept the view that Atta was also an instrument of God. We must remember that the God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims is the same biblical God. To skeptics, this God appears wrathful and cruel, but to believers, He is just. That may be. But what is disturbing...
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