The drive to ‘belong’ is very strong in the young. Its a powerful emotional force for some people.
I also suspect a lot of these violent followers didn’t get enough love and attention from their parents and may have come from broken homes.
Whatever, your comment raises an interesting point.
> The drive to ‘belong’ is very strong in the young. Its a powerful emotional force for some people. <
Excellent point. And that drive is even stronger when the group appears to be winning. All that “tomorrow belongs to me” stuff.
That is, I think, what also compels some people to convert to Islam.
“The drive to ‘belong’ is very strong in the young.”
I had that drive too when I was young so I joined the Air Force in 1963.
Broken homes? Likely.
If they had fathers, they were checked out or too wrapped up in their own world? Likely.
Indoctrinated to think the way they do and no one around to tell them any different? Likely.
Other than a saving relationship with Yeshua (who they have been trained not to believe even exists) and a miraculous turn of attitude and character, there is no hope for them.
I know it sounds defeatist, but it’s sad reality.
“The drive to ‘belong’ is very strong in the young.”
I had that drive too when I was young so I joined the Air Force in 1963.