Violence as Validation

I was never the type of person to keep track of wars because honestly, they scared the heck out of me! Violence is not my thing so I can't really say how much war has changed in the age of terrorism because I tried to stay away from watching things about the war or hearing about the war and my grandmaw wanted to keep me away from violence as much as possible. As I got older though I learned more and more about terrorism and 9/11 and it really confused me and this is mostly because of how much the terrorists would use their own religion to validate their actions. A lot of that is shown in Zero Dark Thirty, but I also see these kinds of validations happening outside of war, for example, cults. I'm not that much of a religious person, but my grandmaw is. If there's one thing I've learned from religion, religion classes, and my grandmaw it is that God probably did not intend on people using his word to validate horrible things such as murders,torture, or cults. I think God wanted more positives actions to come from his teachings rather than negative ones. But that may just be my opinion and like I said I'm not that much of a religious person. It's ridiculous and selfish that people really think that this is what their religion wanted them to do because I highly doubt that. Maybe they need to re-interpret their religion? But I do know that there are some people who do follow a different interpretation of their terrorists religion, but I'm just talking about the terrorist's in this particular blog. As for the changes of war in the age of terrorism, from what I do know, I think a lot has stayed the same and just more information came to the light as technology progressed. I think war has always been brutal and terrorism is just going with the flow of the pattern.