I just came across one today Judy, on a blog that I was catching up on after a long time – and it did make me a little uncomfortable because I have always posed as being a-religious if there’s such a word – agnostic, if you will, or dismissive of popular forms of religious zealotry…
And the comment sounds like he’s saying the zealots are to be commended? Maybe not..maybe he meant the true believers who may not necessarily be the zealots, huh?
“”Without the ultrarational hopes and passions of religion no society will ever have the courage to conquer despair and attempt the impossible; for the vision of a just society is an impossible one, which can be approximated only by those who do not regard it as impossible.”–Reinhold Niebuhr
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