Posted on 06/17/2016 6:07:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Superficially, I am sure there are lots of answers for why an American citizen might decide to affiliate with ISIS and become a terrorist. But I think deep down, at the foundational level, there is a common trait for Westerners who turn toward radical Islam. In a world that tells them nothing creates everything, no one has a purpose, and there is nothing after the grave save rot and worms, the tiny voice instilled in all mankind cries out that there is more and these Westerners have gone on a misguided search for what that more is.
In the neo-pagan world of western society, in the beginning was nothing and nothing created the heavens and the earth. Nothing said, "Let there be light," and from nothing flowed a big bang of energy from which all matter was created through random chance.
Nothing then through a random collision of atoms created apes that evolved into mankind in heterosexual and homosexual form, with something created out of the nothing allowing each person to decide on their own maleness and femaleness.
At the end, each person will die after years of leaving a large carbon footprint helping destroy the earth. Their bodies will decay in the ground, the worms will eat them, the trees will feed on their nutrients, and over time all will be forgotten. Eventually the sun will expand, consume the earth, and the very existence of all people will be stamped out as the universe slowly darkens. There is no purpose except avoiding pain and maximizing pleasure.
The secular lefts of the West are neo-pagans and this is their cosmogony and eschatology. It is a falsehood built on a flight from God who calls out for us to have a relationship with him. God is reflected in nature. "His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made." (Romans 1:20)
Some people become restless confronted by this neo-pagan nihilism. They ask what came before the big bang and are either scoffed at for asking a nonsensical question, or they get a nonsensical answer. Maybe it is multi-verses or universes ad infinitum. Essentially, the neo-pagan theory of creation amounts to turtles all the way down.
These restless souls hear the voice in the back of their head telling them that there is more, there is something greater, and they were meant for eternity. Rejecting the veneers of a rotting western culture, those from Islamic backgrounds go seeking their higher purpose in their heritage. They swing as far toward their native culture as the secular left has swung away from traditional western culture. There they find radical Islam and it answers the call of the voice in their head.
Instead of Christ calling to love and repentance to get to eternity, radical Islam calls for jihad and promises eternal glory. Where they see nihilism in the West, in the East they see purpose, passion, cause and glory.
The neo-pagan West, filled with a secular cult of death just as pernicious as Islam, but wrapped up in compassion and choice instead of conquest and caliphate, cannot calm the cry of the voice in the silence. One death cult provides no answers for another. Only the compassionate call of the Christ who yearns for an eternal relationship with us can do so. But the death cult of the secular west with assisted suicide and abortion will side with the death cult of Islam and its suicide bombers and executioners because the things of this world hate the things of God and creation has declared itself creator. Therefore Christianity can be scapegoated so no one need answer tough questions.
Why do American citizens become terrorists? Because they know the neo-pagans premise the world on a lie, but they get lost in their quest for the truth.
Because Islam.
Muslims are NOT Americans.
The guy was born here in the States, raised by Afghan ‘refugee’ family.
He enjoyed all the advantages of an American citizen, but was never ‘one of us’, not from his childhood (recounted by those who knew him) to adulthood. Calling him ‘an American’ contradicts these.
And the author is still an ass.
Dumb ass Erick learned some new words - “neo-pagan”.
It would be something if this dumb sh!t actually knew what that is, or how it applies here with the recent events.
The truth of it is (in his question of how an American becomes a terrorist) that they (the ones with which perpetrate these disasters) ARE NOT AMERICANS to begin with.
Largely the product of immigrants who should never have been allowed in this country in the first place. The benefit of birth here is bestowed to our complete disadvantage and peril. Their parents (some whose allegiance mostly resides elsewhere) cannot possibly raise a ‘real’ American. What they end up raising are tainted seeds destined for famine and ill fortune.
We don’t need them; we never did. Ever.
Because America really, really sucks and we’ve never done anything positive for the world? Uh, NOT! A fine example to watch is Dinesh D’Souza’s “America”. Nicely done IMHO. Of course there are many more out there.
P.S. Attention delicate snowflakes. Kiss the ground every morning that you weren’t born in some 3rd world hell hole.
We no longer insist that immigrants become Americans in exchange for being allowed to live here.
muslims aren’t Americans. They are stealth aggressors.
Why does a fat piece of sh!t like Erickson still have a gig at Townhall or anywhere else for that matter? That includes all the other #neverTrump demoncrats.
Is this guy stupid?
I must admit, I had never heard about him until he decided to come out against Trump.
Two types of “citizens” here.
1) They became citizens with the a-priori intent of conducting a terrorist attack.
2) Potentially “normal” people who, thanks to an education system and press that continually strives to paint the US as “bad” lashes out as an enabled malcontent. Enabled by religion and/or family echoing the educational and media sentiment.
Erik Ericcson
A paid Cheap labor Express Troll and Uniparty whore.
An American is a sentient being accepting the instruction and attitude of a freeborn entity
The scumbags that commit murder are not Americans
Why Does an American Become a Terrorist?
Because they were NEVER AMERICANS IN THE FIRST PLACE..........................
This same piece of lard proclaimed Obama a natural born Citizen some years back.
I think we need to look at just what an American is. It certainly has to mean more than just sharing geography.
At this point I'd extend that to "democrats".
His father was behind this.
Because children of foreigners born on U.S. soil are called “Anchor Babies”, NOT Americans and NOT natural born citizens.
He was an infiltrator not an American.
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