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Absolute fucktons. Now I've answered your as-good-as-rhetorical question, where are you going to go with this? What's your point, your proposal, your next step

• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  FWIW, it's not specific to religion. The exact same thing happens with political ideologies, too, and cultural differences in general. Historically, a lot of art, knowledge and people were erased in conflicts over those things - through wars and civil wars and reformations and such. My take from this is that zealotry has a long proven, insanely high base rate of being disastrously wrong. It's also sheer idiocy on a theoretical level - it's the extreme case of using confidence to hide lack of understanding. If you feel you're becoming zealous about some cause or idea, this means you most likely don't understand much of it[0]. If you're in an environment that encourages zealotry, you're being used. Something to keep in mind when evaluating your religious, political, social or technological beliefs. -- [0] - It doesn't mean the idea itself is necessarily bogus. The idea is probably wrong in some ways - all ideas are - but zealotry is just stupid, regardless of the subject. To abuse a philosophical point, regardless of whether your belief is true or not, you ought not to be zealous about it.