There may be violent verses in the Bible, but there are none that actively say or have been interpreted by religious scholars as “go kill people today”.
That’s because it has not been seen as necessary. Terrorism is the little brother of warfare. And a symptom of desperation fused with religious extremism aka taking religious scripture as literal.
Right now fundamentalist evangelicals and zionists are actively supporting ethnic cleansing in Gaza because of prophecy and divine right. Which under any humane standards could be construed as “terrorism”. However, this is state sanctioned religious fundamentalism and the cause of much of the resurgence of muslim religious killing. Actually, I could make a case that it is instrumental in achieving imperial goals and welcomed by heads of state for various reasons. Put another way: If terrorism subsides we would look like assholes with our military over huge oil deposits, wouldn’t we Or Israel would not be able to emancipate land as easily. It works very well for achieving ulterior motives.
Jihadists actively seeking to kill innocents took a several hundred year hiatus until the past few decades. It is helpful to understand why rather than blathering about religious scripture. Because two can play that game.
As russ points out above, Imperialism can be construed as forms of “terrorism” as well, because it is essentially killing people that don’t want to play along. These days it’s much harder to do just for the sake of coveting.
Pre-christianity most empires just concurred for the glory of it. It became necessary to manufacture a “casus belli” as the Romans called it, a pretext or excuse for war at some point. Note that the Romans didn’t need that in the earliest days of their republic, they just went out and conquered as they pleased!
Nowadays it’s such a set notion in all people that one shouldn’t start a war without just cause, that propagandists everywhere are kept gainfully employed coming up with such excuses because we really have not changed that much.
