that hideous strength

I was a fanatic

When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy. More...

yes, we will blame their politics, their economics, and our globalization. but we will never blame their faith. we won't do that because it would cast light on our own, and show the hypocrisy and utter evil that is produced when one group of people decides that their god is better than your god. it's not so much that horror has been produced from myth, but rather that such myth has been allowed to persist as truth.

even while the masses revel in their religious mediocrity, barely shuffling in and out of church and afraid to read a verse outside of what their pastors have to offer in passive comfort, your altruism and tolerance for faith cultivates this mythic evil.