Eating their own
Fanatics don't just hate unbelievers. They also hate fellow believers who aren't quite fanatical enough, or not in quite the right way.
So they denounce and purge each other as heretics and even burn down churches that worship the wrong way.
Watch for more of the same. Intolerance only starts with intolerance of atheists. Inevitably the fanatic's definition of the One True Way becomes ever narrower and more exacting, the range of permissible deviation shrinks to nothing, and the agitated hostility toward those who have the Message wrong and thus might lead the righteous astray waxes stronger.
With Christians like these, who needs lions?
So they denounce and purge each other as heretics and even burn down churches that worship the wrong way.
Watch for more of the same. Intolerance only starts with intolerance of atheists. Inevitably the fanatic's definition of the One True Way becomes ever narrower and more exacting, the range of permissible deviation shrinks to nothing, and the agitated hostility toward those who have the Message wrong and thus might lead the righteous astray waxes stronger.
With Christians like these, who needs lions?
Labels: Religion
posted by Infidel753 at 5:09 AM
2 Comments:
I get so fired up over people trying to force others into being clones of themselves or their ideal of what a person should think/believe/do. They do some ugly things, then don't have to take responsibility, because it was "for their God," their church, whatever. Two of our greatist strengths are individuality and the ability to reason. Take away our differences and society is weakened. Your blog is an interesting read, but some of the things you point out have me riled- lol! Thank you for that, for making your visitors aware.
Chell, thanks for visiting. Unfortunately the world we live in contains a lot of people who believe extremely irrational things and somehow take it as a personal affront that not everyone else believes as they do. As long as they insist they have a right to express their intolerance by crashing airplanes into our skyscrapers or passing laws to force us to live by their taboos, we dare not let our guard down.
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