(December 31, 2014 at 12:35 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Zealotry is the culprit. It takes a zealot -- Christian, Communist, Muslim, whatever -- it takes a zealot to justify evil with ideology.
Indeed, however the zealots feed off the popular support of the grassroots majority. Take away the implicit blessing that zealotry requires and the religious maniacs become ordinary everyday maniacs.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
