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	Eliminating Religious Intolerance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Indeed, a resurgence of fanatical religious fervor, and its attendant violence, is one of the outstanding social phenomena distinguishing the closing years of the twentieth century.
		Fanaticism destroys the very foundations of human solidarity by dividing the world into contending factions, each believing itself to be superior to others and to have an exclusive claim on religious truth.
		Fanaticism may seem to prevail for a time on the international scene, but ultimately it will die an ignominious death as peoples around the world come to recognize and rediscover the unifying truths enunciated so clearly in all the great religions of the world.
	www.bic-un.bahai.org /87-0303.htm (964 words)

	Fanaticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fanaticism, from French fanatique or Latin fanaticus 'of a temple, inspired by a god' is an emotion of being filled with excessive, uncritical zeal, particularly for an extreme religious or political cause, or with an obsessive enthusiasm for a pastime or hobby.
		The difference between a fan and a fanatic is that while both have an overwhelming liking or interest in a given subject, behaviour of a fanatic will be viewed as violating prevailing social norms, while that of a fan will not violate those norms (although is usually considered unusual).(ThorneandBruner 2006)
		religious fanaticism - the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism, which typical takes on violent, and potentially deadly dimensions
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fanaticism (210 words)

	Religious fanaticism destroys spiritualism
		Due to fanaticism he was unable to understand spiritual truths but taking his stand to destroy the greatness of his spiritual life.
		Religious Fanaticism is contrary to spiritual truth; Spiritual truths exist in all the world religions.
		When we take a deep look at the religious denominations and view it in spiritual luminance history expounds obviously that all these divisions were formed as a result of departing from spirituality.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1412/fanaticism.html (1479 words)

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		Fanaticism Nowadays we are at war against religious fanaticism and consider it to be indecent and despicable, although religious fanaticism is not as dangerous as some other kinds of fanaticism.
		You will come across many persons who do not at all possess religious fanaticism but they are involved in fanaticism of color, race, nationality, political beliefs etc. Indulgence and forgiveness is possible in the matter of religious fanaticism but it is not possible in the case of other kinds of fanaticism..
		Such fanaticism is based on egotism, ignorance and profiteering and those who possess only what they have concluded is right and their view about man and life is indisputable.
	www.mindspring.com /~altafb/tolerancy.txt (1925 words)

	Religious fanaticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within the spectrum of adherence to a particular belief system, religious fanaticism is the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism, which typical takes on violent, and potentially deadly dimensions.
		Some consider more recent examples of Christian fanaticism to include violence associated with anti-abortion extremists, but this is an extremely controversial and emotionally-charged debated issue.
		Members of the religious mainstream usually disapprove of fanaticism, but some also feel it to be necessary to maintain cultural identity and spread the perceived word of God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_fanaticism (260 words)

	Fanaticism in religion
		Fanaticism was and is more or less present in any religious tradition.
		One should not let oneself to be discouraged by fanaticism and to not reject religion as a whole ('all are hypocrites who want power and profit') but stick to association of advanced practitioners.
		Fanaticism is often used as a political tool according to the 'divide and conquer' rule.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/fanaticism.htm (2089 words)

	Religious fanaticism root of violence in Mideast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But in stating that oppression is the true cause of hate, Rizvi has neglected a few facts, perhaps unintentionally, which support a different hypothesis altogether: that while Islam is a gentle religion, religious extremists among the Muslims (and admittedly, among the Jews as well) are abusing their religion for political or national causes.
		Religious extremists, however, are abusing the religion for political and national goals.
		Perhaps the only thing that can be correctly stated about the Middle East is that the mixture of religious, emotional, national, political, geographic, demographic, social and economic issues there is too complex for any person to fully fathom and sort through.
	paradigm.asucla.ucla.edu /DB/issues/98/11.30/view.kalderon.html (794 words)

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		The religious fanatic is like a stuck record, in the sense that his religious views are all he ever wants to talk about, and if he ever talks about anything else, he eventually brings the subject back to his religious views.
		Indeed, the religious fanatic typically loves no one else at all; he has no room in his heart for persons, since all of his love is directed toward a doctrine.
		Those who are already religious fanatics are immune to philosophy, because the study and practice of philosophy requires willingness to entertain new ideas, readiness to question one's assumptions, and dedication to the rational resolution of differences of opinion.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /garnicht/DRFT1wrd.htm (3602 words)

	Religious Fanacticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fanaticism and bigotry are usually connected and include intolerance, which is an unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to ones own and like Cain, takes the position of being infallible and kills Abel because he cannot tolerate Abel’s position.
		Superstition is also connected to fanaticism and is an ignorant and irrational religious belief, thus intolerant because there is no support for this position.
		Bigotry, fanaticism and superstitions are perversions of religious sentiment.
	members.aol.com /libcfl2/fanatic.htm (605 words)

	Burtinle Online
		Fanaticism doesn’t only exist in religion, but it well thrives in other forms of non-religious ideologies such as nationalism, communism, clannism, etc. For example, the Nazis of Germany and Fascists of Italy were an extreme form of nationalism which showed all characteristics of fanaticism.
		In Somalia, fanaticism had never been part of its religious belief nor was cases of religious fanaticism ever documented on Somalis.
		As a matter of fact, the opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
	www.burtinle.com /rayi/fidow3.html (1039 words)

	CONVERTED KASHMIR: Memorial of Mistakes
		To prevent misuse of religious places the Indian Parliament adopted a law in 1988 which was enforced in the entire country except Jammu and Kashmir which has a special status and where the law was fully violated.
		Behind this campaign for religious conversion is the idea of Islamisation of Ladakh and uniting the Valley on the basis of the politics of separatism and subversion.
		Kashmir's religious fanaticism is a part of that international religious fanaticism the political goal of which is to convert the entire world into "Darul Islam" for the purpose of establishing Islamic rule (Nizame Mustaffa).
	www.kashmir-information.com /ConvertedKashmir/Chapter25.html (5474 words)

	Nation Responds To Fanatic Religious Attacks With Religious Fanaticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Religious extremists desecrate the mass grave of hundreds of non-christians with a coincidental replica of their superstitious symbol.
		Bearing reluctant witness to the shocking destruction, many of the nation's citizens have turned to their own belief in an omnipotent, omnipresent God who inscrutably meddles in the affairs of humanity as the answer to the unbearable grief and horror felt by all.
		In the course of an often-emotional speech, he urged caution, patriotism and religious fervor as a means of keeping the stunned republic united in the face of zealotism.
	fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu /fanatics.html (1227 words)

	RelExprK
		I define fanaticism as the highly energized pursuit of ideals through religious or non-religious thinking, feeling, and doing that are distorted by being cut off from balancing wisdom.
		Let the term fanatic, as I have suggested, connote a mindset where religious ideals are exalted in isolation from the scientific mental attitude, from a critical philosophy, from beauty in nature and the arts, and from diverse types of spiritual experience.
		Genuine religious experience of supreme value, then, as Kant should have seen, offers a bulwark against fanaticism if religious experience is integrated with scientific inquiry into fact, philosophic consideration of meaning, sensitivity to beauty, and devotion to universal goodness.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~jwattles/relexprk.htm (2623 words)

	SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
		The ugliest chapters in history are those that recount the religious intolerance of the civil and ecclesiastical rulers of the Old World and their puppets during the generations preceding the framing and ratifying of the First Amendment.
		In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds—that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.
		The people who want to maintain laws based on their religious beliefs are taking their constitutionally guaranteed right of religious freedom too far—they are physically harming the persons and property of others and using the peace officers of this country to enforce their excessive exercise of a sacred constitutional right.
	www.mcwilliams.com /books/books/aint/203.htm (5758 words)

	Hitler's Religious Beliefs and Fanaticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.
		Political parties has nothing to do with religious problems, as long as these are not alien to the nation, undermining the morals and ethics of the race; just as religion cannot be amalgamated with the scheming of political parties.
		The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.
	www.sullivan-county.com /nf0/hitler/hitler1.htm (6766 words)

	Religious Fanaticism Out of Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although Specter cites several examples of religious beliefs thwarting scientific advances by key appointees to the FDA and other divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services (Tommy Thompson's old department), one of the most egregious has been to block a vaccine designed to thwart cervical cancer.
		And therein lies the rub for the religious base of the Republican Party that George Bush and company have installed in crucial posts in the health department.
		It's the anti-environment policies, the unjust tax policies, the ceaseless trashing of civil liberties and the subjugation of solid medical science for religious zealotry that is tearing down an America that was based on fairness and truth.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0321-24.htm (495 words)

	Sermons: The Dangers of Religious Fanaticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A second attribute of religious fanaticism is that, whether Moslem, Christian or Jewish, it tends to see things in fl and white.
		Thirdly, religious fanatics (or call them religious fundamentalists) are people who come to see the world around them as godless.
		To my mind, it is an incredible response to all those religious radicals who think that the world is basically evil, and that there is nothing to do but lash out at those who are different.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /fumcsb/sermons/fanaticism.html (1682 words)

	Despotism, Religious Fanaticism, and the Grand Master Hiram Abiff
		This was an apt symbol of the union of all civil and religious power at differing times in history.
		The symbolic portrayal of Despotism fueled by religious fanaticism crushing the seat of man's affections; the heart.
		I additionally was trying to get across the point that fanaticism is a dangerous thing, and all of the examples that I used were ones the Albert Pike had used which again I had pointed out in the paper itself.
	www.freemasons-freemasonry.com /watson.html (3412 words)

	Is Religious Fanaticism a Disease? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Religious fanaticism has all the signs of being an addiction disorder, just like alcoholism, just like compulsive gambling, just like being hooked on crack.
		While it's true that some people are born with a predisposition to addictive behavior, the addiction doesn't "just happen." People don't contract it from bacteria or viruses, but by repeatedly engaging in the behavior, whether it's drinking, gambling, or religion.
		The religious addict can't get through the day without engaging heavily in their faith.
	www.bee.net /cardigan/attic/101997.htm (266 words)

	Jon Goes Off On... Religious Fanaticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When we get to the bottom of these attacks and figure out who the suspects are, I think we'll learn that the key issue on their minds wasn't the issue of abortion.
		I hope that the next time you speak with Falwell and Robertson you will have some strong words for them about their remarks, especially the timing of them, made right after the incident when people were grieving and looking for loved ones.
		Their comments seriously cast doubt upon their credentials as religious leaders and men of compassion.
	www.jonreed.net.cnchost.com /sys-tmpl/mrpresident (409 words)

	Witchcraft, Religious Fanaticism and Schizophrenia -- Salem Revisited
		In all these instances, men and women lost their lives in the name of religious fanaticism, and, perhaps, each of the leaders suffered from a mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
		The power of religious fanaticism and mental illness cannot be denied, nor overlooked.
		All we are looking for is the possibility that these two factors were present, and that they could have had an inverse effect upon the trials, and to begin the understanding, from a psychological view, of the Puritans and their actions.
	www.earlyamerica.com /review/2000_fall/salem_witch2.html (2450 words)

	Religious Fanaticism -- Part 17: It's Cure: Become A Citizen Of The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Religious leaders and the priest-class of all organized religions are also debased.
		For the fanaticism, evil conduct, violence, intolerance, prejudices and wars are not inherent in human beings.
		Also, to be a religious person is not mere physical identification with an institutionalized religion; it's rather a state of True Being where one sees the whole universe strung on One Consciousness as flowers of all type are strung on a thread.
	www.gurbani.org /webart156.htm (3640 words)

	Religious Fanaticism on All Sides
		Her daughter, with a face of sweet fanaticism, admitted that aid was only secondary in her mission.
		There is enough blood and guts in all of our religious texts to foment terrorism and mayhem if people choose to read these texts as blueprints instead of as the semi-mythical history of people coming of age.
		It is essential, it seems to me, to make certain that the focus of this religious war, which radical Muslims began, remain a conflict between religious fanaticism and the modern rule of law.
	www.globalthink.net /global/dsparticle.cfm?ArticleID=51 (706 words)

	Terrorism Is Not the Real Problem... The Real Problem is Religious Fanaticism
		One purpose of this document is to illustrate the dangers of Religious Fanaticism, identify its signs and suggest how to counteract it.
		This was also the product of Religious Fanaticism manifested in a different way, yet yielding the same results: Death and destruction.
		Fanaticism is NOT Part of the Heritage of Jesus Christ
	www.mdep.org /terrorist.html (1421 words)

	Election 2004: Americans Endorse War, Religious Fanaticism And State Terrorism
		If the secular West really despised religious fanaticism they would have picked up on the fact that the religious fanaticism of George Bush and his administration is politically motivated.
		The term religious fanaticism is only employed in condemning the heroic Mujahideen resisting the revolting Goliath.
		Similarly, it is the speeches and sentences of George Bush that are far closer to that of a mad man or an imbecile rather than the well-composed message with a poetic touch of Usamah Bin Laden.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7216.htm (1335 words)

	Religious Fanaticism Part 7 -- Its Cure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The men of wealth and religious regimes treat organized religions and religious institutions as their personal property, and run them in a businesslike manner similar to multinational corporations; where the bottom line is to make more money and more followers, either by "hook" or "crook".
		People in control of religious places are able to impose their personal agenda or will on others not by the virtue of their spiritual wisdom, credibility, ethics, or moral character but because they have behind them power (money).
		Therefore, the religious texts and the Men of Truth urge every individual to reflect whether he is leading an animal-like existence or making efforts to progress spiritually for which he is given this human form.
	www.gurbani.org /webart120.htm (12600 words)

	A Psychiatric Case Study on Religious Fanaticism
		We believe that Brother David's story, most of which was never published by any of the nation's key newspapers, will give the serious reader a better understanding of the fragile and fine line separating sanity with insanity in matters of faith.
		We have written of the errors of fanaticism and of radical asceticism.
		He felt that his religious dedication had been intermittently undermined by his rebellious nature but that he belonged within the monastery's spiritual community.
	www.mgr.org /fanmonk.html (4839 words)

	Adherents.com
		The Negro populations of the Brazilian coastal cities such as Recife, Bahia and Rio, maintain shrines in which the deities who are worshipped are, despite the Christianization of their names, readily identifiable as gods worshipped by their ancestors in Nigeria and Dahomey.
		There are a variety of religious groupings that continue to follow traditional African religious practices.
		A wave of religious fanaticism swept across the Bridgewater district.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_14.html (3668 words)

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