Army of God?

I happen to believe that the vast majority of people, irrespective of their cultural background or religious beliefs, are peaceful law-abiding members of their society. The risk that they will plan or participate in a terrorist attack is essentially zero.

The reason that I believe this is really quite simple - if the vast majority of people were not peaceful law-abiding members of their society then the world would exist in a state of near total chaos. I'm not talking about a couple of newsworthy attacks a week. I'm talking about nearly continuous widespread major terrorist events occurring all over the world on an essentially continuous basis. There would be literally hundreds of major attacks per day where a major attack would be defined as an attack killing at least 1,000 people. The human civilization all over the world would simply collapse into a state far far worse than the Dark Ages.

Since human civilization has obviously not collapsed and is in fact thriving by most measures, the vast majority of people, irrespective of their cultural background or religious beliefs, must be peaceful law-abiding members of their society.

What we do have is formal and informal groups of people all over the world who, for various reasons, have decided to "go rogue". More accurately, they have decided to attack those whom they perceive as being their oppressors (note that it does not matter whether or not those that they attack actually are their oppressors - all that is required to create the situation we see in the world today is that a relatively modest number of groups of people are attacking who they perceive to be their oppressors).

We do indeed live in interesting times . . .

Army of God? Here are 6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups you never hear about (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/army-of-god-here-are-6-modern-day-christian-terrorist-groups-you-never-hear-about/)

What's on the other side of the ocean?

This is a seriously cool map. It shows what you would 'see' if you could see the first major land mass directly east or directly west from the shores of North America.  I particularly like the 'view' from Argentina and southern Chile.

Click through on the link below for a larger version.

Map by Eric Odenheimer (I've not been able to chase down the actual original posting and I'm not at all sure which Eric Odenheimer is actually responsible for the map).

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57677/whats-other-side-ocean?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlasobscura