I Am a Terrorist Sympathizer

I am a terrorist sympathizer.

I sympathize with the women who live in poverty and fear, under the thumb of dictators installed by alien powers.

I sympathize with the clerics who have witnessed age-old traditions ravaged by exotic economic adventures.

I sympathize with the children taking cover from the cluster bombs excreted unblushingly by strange gods in the sky.

I sympathize with the kite-flying boys cut down by the toy airplanes of remote delinquent drones.

I sympathize with the rock-throwing boys who stand proud and fearless before the giant iron monsters menacing their playground.

I sympathize with the rock-throwing boys who trade their roadside games for roadside bombs.

I sympathize with the families who live huddled together in concentration camps on the fringes of a land that television tourists have the audacity to call holy.

I sympathize with the sanctioned, the starved, and the displaced, with the collateral damage of malnourished egos over-asserting themselves to their dogs.

I sympathize with the slaves who dream of enslaving their pale-skinned masters.

I sympathize with the orphan whose desperation and righteous indignation is manipulated by the affluent cowards who promise liberation from foreign occupation on the other side of someone else’s suicide.

I sympathize with the explosion that exposes the cynicism of the economics of exploitation.

I sympathize with the terrorists.

I sympathize with the terrified.

I sympathize with flesh and blood.

I do not sympathize with terrorism.

I do not sympathize with a terror state.

I do not sympathize with a government that would incarcerate its patriots for sympathizing with its victims.

I sympathize with the traitor, who stands naked as an enemy in his own homeland, because his own homeland betrayed him first.

I do not sympathize with those who take away our freedoms, after telling us our freedoms are the reason the terrorists hate us.

I sympathize with the terrorists who hate us because we have taken their freedoms from them.

I am a terrorist sympathizer.

And we are the enemy we seek.

This post was written by

Thom Stark – who has written 100 posts on Religion at the Margins.

Thom Stark is a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose filmography includes Dear Whiskey, and the award-winning films Who Art in Heaven, Revolution, and Note to Self. He is the author of The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It). Thom was a Fig Tree and Ledbetter scholar at Emmanuel School of Religion, A Graduate Seminary. Thom has lectured on Second Temple Jewish apocalypticism, Christian origins, the Parables of Jesus, and early Christological controversies. He has also been the recipient of numerous lectures on tact.

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