Most combatants from civilized cultures view war
as a necessary evil meant to counter threats to national
security through the overweening ambition of a totalitarian
power. They display the courage of their convictions
leading them beyond their mortal fears hoping to
strike a blow for freedom and avoid the skull-grinning
Angel of Death. Contrast that with the Medieval mind
compelled by the idea of martyrdom as a sacred gift
to the Divine, who boast they do not seek to evade death
but purposely seek it out in tandem with striking a blow
to destroy freedom in favour of the tentacles of religious
fervour demanding of its faithful to conduct a mission of
proselytization by delivering the unfaithful to waiting Death
equally prepared to reap the lives of the worthy martyrs.
Those who celebrate death, both delivering and drawing it
to themselves clearly deserve to meet their maker
well before the divine decree to slaughter others is met.
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