"With or without religion.." Quote. Is Weinberg wrong?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Zealotry is the culprit. It takes a zealot -- Christian, Communist, Muslim, whatever -- it takes a zealot to justify evil with ideology.

Not just a zealot, but a zealot that is motivated by bad dogma and doctrine.

Even the best doctrines and prescriptions can be disastrous when applied zealously -- pure capitalism, pure communism, pure altruism, and most other ideologies read well in the abstract, but when humans try to shoehorn reality so that it fits their favorite abstraction, bad shit happens, usually.

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I disagree. The masses aren't inflamed, or else we'd call them zealots. We call them moderates because they're not extremists.

I don't know....



that's a metric fuckton of people out there because of a fucking cartoon. Are they all extremists?

... And there's a kajillion more who, while Muslim, think those guys are evil, or stupid, or at best misguided.

Those mobs might represent Muslims to you. But the aren't the masses of Muslims, which number 1.6 billion.