text: I sometimes wonder what really is the difference between radical fundamentalist ISIS terrorists and radical fundamentalist Christians? Is it that the one is waiting for the end and the other is working to make it happen? Or is it that the one is "making hay while the sun shines" and the other is wreaking havoc in the belief they can enjoy it forever (after)? Maybe. Or, is it that one kills with mindless venom; the other would like to but can't...yet?
  Both substitute ideology for thought
  Adherents of both are duped 
  Leaders of both are manipulators who ultimately distance themselves from the "duped"
  Each either have no, or have suppressed, empathy
  One kills without compunction and with venom. The other would like to but can't...yet.
  Both contend they are relentlessly following the will of "god" and eschew human feeling but...are really satisfying base emotional human impulses of domination, hatred  
  Both used their "book" (symbol of civilization) to rationalize barbarism - ironic.