{"quotes":[{"text":"Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["anti-god","common-sense","dismiss","disprove","fanatic","hatred","irrelevant","misapplied","prove","reason","scientific-facts","scripture","secular-humanist","sheeple","spouting"],"id":23442,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date your PASTOR to know he can be your MENTOR before you give him your ears! Test the Spirits...And don't be a religious fanatic!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["boyfriend","church","convinced","courtship","date","fanatic","fanatics","girlfriend","israelmore-ayivor","lovers","make-love","marriage","marry","men-of-god","mentor","pastor","preacher","relationship","religious-fanatic","sheep-on-wolves-cloth","test-the-spirits"],"id":30120,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["course","diehard","dogma","dogmatism","extremist","false","fanatic","fanaticism","follower","ignorance","lies","michael-bassey-johnson","misgiving","misuderstanding","path","religion","stoop","untruth","wind"],"id":57710,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.","author":"Cathryn Louis","tags":["doctrine","fanatic","rules"],"id":119940,"author_id":"Cathryn+Louis"},{"text":"When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["brainless","copy","copycat","copying","correction","failure","fake","fake-people","fanatic","fanatism","fool","foolishness","imitation","imitator","impersonating","impersonator","lunacy","lunatic","michael-bassey-johnsom","mistake","pose","repetition","satire"],"id":124326,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.","author":"Eric Hoffer","tags":["atheist","cynic","fanatic"],"id":191016,"author_id":"Eric+Hoffer"},{"text":"We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["atheist","fanatic","irrationality","secularism"],"id":201363,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.","author":"Aldous Huxley","tags":["doubt","fanatic"],"id":205517,"author_id":"Aldous+Huxley"},{"text":"Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["african","africans","attitude","boredom","boring","christian","christianity","church","compulsion","deception","fanatic","fanatical-views","lackadaisical","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","monotonous","nigeria","nigerians","orthodox","penitence","poverty","satire","servitude","stupidity","unattractive","wretch","wretched"],"id":298334,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.","author":"Dietrich Bonhoeffer","tags":["blame","blessing","christians","city","condemn","crazy","disciples","disturb","division","family","fanatic","hate","home","jesus","loyalty","nation","peace","perseverence","temptation"],"id":329988,"author_id":"Dietrich+Bonhoeffer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}