A Darker Power?
2015-03-04 - by
The Reverend William Barber got up to pray at a memorial service for three Muslim students killed in Chapel Hill and, right in the middle of his prayer, pointed his finger straight at Reverend Franklin Graham and said Graham lit the fuse to the powder keg that led to the murders.
Barber’s thinking went like this: He said Graham spoke out against Muslim students’ right to pray in Duke Chapel which poisoned the “Atmosphere” which triggered hatred of Muslims which drove an atheist from Chapel Hill to murder.
Meantime, in Washington, the Obama Administration’s explaining a theory of its own, saying young men join ISIS and become terrorists because of broken Political Systems – in places like Syria – that breed corruption and poverty .
So we have two new explanations for murder: The Atmosphere. And the System.
And the problem is obvious: A lot of poor politically disenfranchised young men never chop off a anyone’s head.
So why are they different?
Could it be Reverend Barber and President Obama have missed a darker power (that’s more capable of murder than the Atmosphere or a Broken System) that’s whispering to the young men who become terrorists?
A Darker Power?
2015-03-04/
The Reverend William Barber got up to pray at a memorial service for three Muslim students killed in Chapel Hill and, right in the middle of his prayer, pointed his finger straight at Reverend Franklin Graham and said Graham lit the fuse to the powder keg that led to the murders.
Barber’s thinking went like this: He said Graham spoke out against Muslim students’ right to pray in Duke Chapel which poisoned the “Atmosphere” which triggered hatred of Muslims which drove an atheist from Chapel Hill to murder.
Meantime, in Washington, the Obama Administration’s explaining a theory of its own, saying young men join ISIS and become terrorists because of broken Political Systems – in places like Syria – that breed corruption and poverty .
So we have two new explanations for murder: The Atmosphere. And the System.
And the problem is obvious: A lot of poor politically disenfranchised young men never chop off a anyone’s head.
So why are they different?
Could it be Reverend Barber and President Obama have missed a darker power (that’s more capable of murder than the Atmosphere or a Broken System) that’s whispering to the young men who become terrorists?