I just started reading this book called The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan. I am not sure why I an reading it, or even why I have it, since I've never heard of it and just happened across it. But I figured I'd blaze through it. Judging from its cover, often considered the best way to evaluate literature, I thought it might be a needed diversion from everything else I read all the time (movies not really being an option with baby-makes-three in the picture).

(having just looked at the webpage for the book, I am surprised to find that it has its own trailer....?

Anyway, the first page is worth noting:

"Jesus, who wanted love to such an extent, was clearly a madman, and had no choice when confronted with the failure of love but to seek his own death. In his understanding that love was not enough, in his acceptance of the necessity of the sacrfice of his own life to enable the future of those around him, Jesus is history's first, but not last, example of a suicide bomber."