#zealotry

That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give 'em either one or the other, but not both. It just messes up their brains. ↗

— K.W. Jeter

#war #warfare #zealotry #men

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#zealotry #religion

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage... As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anti-glbt #bigotry #zealotry #change

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#temptation #zealotry #faith