There is a school of thought - I'm sitting in the third row, with my notebook, right there - that believes fanaticism isn't the extreme of belief or faith, but rather its opposite. Every fanatic is desperately trying to silence that horrible little voice of doubt, even if it means screaming down the planters of that doubt seed.
If that's true, then the number of fanatics we have at present is genuinely appalling. It goes back to Arnaud at the siege of Beziers, ordering his people to kill everyone in the town, because "God would know his own."
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Date: 2004-11-04 08:45 pm (UTC)If that's true, then the number of fanatics we have at present is genuinely appalling. It goes back to Arnaud at the siege of Beziers, ordering his people to kill everyone in the town, because "God would know his own."
Kill 'em all and let God sort out the pieces.
There's no gentleness there.