Muslim Woman Strangles and Stabbs Daughter 40 Times to Exorcise Her

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padib said:

sapphi_snake said:

padib said:

You're confusing psychosis with religious fanaticism. They play on each other, but the problem this lady had was psychosis that led her to murder her daughter. What those people you know personally suffer from is religious fanaticism, it can be good (enlightened) or it can be bad (ignorant). Fanaticism in and of itself, imho, is not a bad thing.

No, religious fanaticism is inherently bad, and causes nothing but evil.

Nope. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a religious fanatic, he did a great deal of good (understatement). Martin Luther King was a religious fanatic, and so was mother Teresa. Jesus was a religious fanatic and we know what he did (if the gospels are true, which is a likely possibility unless you just want to doubt for the sake of doubting).

As I said, religious fanaticism is only bad when it is paired with ignorance. Irreligious fanaticism follows the same rule.

I don't think you know what religious fanaticism means. None of the people you mentioned there were religious fanatics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_fanaticism#Popular_Examples_of_Religious_Fanaticism

Religious fanaticism is the result of ignorance.