{"quotes":[{"text":"Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["apotheosis","bonhoeffer","bronze-age-palestine","catholic-church","catholic-church-nazi-germany","catholic-fascism","christianity","church-hitler","church-right-wing","crusades","emancipation","extreme-right","fascism","fascism-and-the-church","franco","god","god-vengeance","hitler","italy","jackboot","jackboot-britain","mussolini","nazis-and-the-church","nietzsche","old-testament","old-testament-god","religion","religious","right-wing","spanish-civil-war","the-crusades","tribalistic","vatican","vatican-city","vengeance","vengeful","zealotry","zealots"],"id":4201,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narcissistic vindication of their ego and will. The enlightened mind knows that all is challengeable, ergo questions all and thus, learns and grows; progression. The weak and narrow mind makes its beliefs sacrosanct; fearful of challenge, their creed becomes unalterable, defended with violence. Political extremists, much like religious zealots, are the latter. They destroy what they cannot convert. They annihilate those they cannot control, or force to conform. They have found no peace in life, no love, and so promote war and division, as emotional cripples – inflicting their own pain and misery and malignant stupidity on the world. Their language binds people together, but only by stirring the darkest excesses of the soul; language of hate, and intolerance, fear and conspiracy, and the need for vengeance. In war-scarred Europe, these cripples direct mass-psychology, and would make the world in their own likeness; mutilated by violence and tribalism and hate.","author":"Daniel S. Fletcher","tags":["advancement","extremism","jackboot","jackboot-britain","lies","manipulation","manipulation-of-facts","political-extremism","political-language","progression","propaganda","sacrosanct","social-indoctrination","terrorism","tribalism","zealotry","zealots"],"id":17135,"author_id":"Daniel+S.+Fletcher"},{"text":"The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo.","author":"Francis Crick","tags":["ideas","zealotry"],"id":35498,"author_id":"Francis+Crick"},{"text":"You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["belief","conspiracies","conspiracists","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","danger","dangerous-minds","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","missions","radicalism","radicals","terror","terrorism","terrorists","true-belief","true-believers","warfare","zealotry","zealots"],"id":74928,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying. ","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["extremism","islam","terrorism","zealotry"],"id":87041,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.","author":"H.W. Brands","tags":["compromise","extremism","leadership","zealotry"],"id":127349,"author_id":"H.W.+Brands"},{"text":"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.","author":"Michael Crichton","tags":["integrity","religion","zealotry"],"id":129943,"author_id":"Michael+Crichton"},{"text":"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.","author":"Eleanor Roosevelt","tags":["diversity","multiculturalism","propoganda","racism","unity","zealotry"],"id":160869,"author_id":"Eleanor+Roosevelt"},{"text":"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["dogma","mythology","religion","tolerance","zealotry"],"id":160948,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.","author":"Frances Hardinge","tags":["faith","religion","zealotry"],"id":193540,"author_id":"Frances+Hardinge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}