I don’t feel like goin’ to school today. How ’bout you, Spanky? Let’s just blow ourselves up instead, and become martyrs!
“It’s not suicide, it’s martyrdom. I would become a martyr and go to my God. It’s better than being a singer or a footballer. It’s better than anything.”
I didn’t always like going to school. I was a good student, not great. It was sometimes tedious, stressful, shameful. Also often fun and interesting. I had mixed feelings; on the whole, vacation was better. But I must say there were few days when I would have preferred being blown to shredded chunks.
We need to find the psychos who are spewing this twisted vision of “martyrdom,” and help them with an attitude adjustment. A martyr may be called on to die for his people, but he’d much rather live for them. He lays down his life as a last resort, not as a pitiful, useless, misbegotten waste.
Metaphor 