{"id":34429,"date":"2016-01-28T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=34429"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:15:46","slug":"mikey-weinstein-lauds-self-indicting-article-on-zealots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/mikey-weinstein-lauds-self-indicting-article-on-zealots\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Lauds Self-Indicting Article on Zealots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[For] the <strong>zealot<\/strong>&#8230;the real recompense is probably the obsession itself&#8230; <strong>Ambiguity vanishes<\/strong> from the fanatic&#8217;s world view, a <strong>narcissistic sense of self-assurance<\/strong> displaces all doubt. A delicious <strong>rage<\/strong> quickens his pulse, <strong>fueled by the sins and shortcomings of lesser mortals<\/strong>, who are soiling the world wherever he looks. His perspective narrows until the last remnants of proportion are shed from his life. <strong>Through immoderation, he experiences something akin to rapture<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/weinsteinser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"218\" \/>This\u00a0quote is from Jon Krakauer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jon-krakauer\/fundamentalist-religious-ammon-bundy-militia-oregon_b_8931762.html\">Huffington Post article<\/a> on his book about\u00a0&#8220;violent faith,&#8221; which he said helped explain the motivation behind the\u00a0ranchers at the heart of the Oregon standoff.<\/p>\n<p>Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein called this quote and Krakauer&#8217;s work &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MikeyMRFF\/posts\/10153911734738410\">amazing<\/a>,&#8221; apparently without realizing how accurately those same words described <em>him<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Irony, projection, hypocrisy &#8212; call it what you will.\u00a0 It&#8217;s <!--more-->amusing to note Weinstein <em>displays<\/em> the very same traits he <em>derides<\/em> in the bogeymen he calls &#8220;religious fundamentalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[For] the zealot&#8230;the real recompense is probably the obsession itself&#8230; Ambiguity vanishes from the fanatic&#8217;s world view, a narcissistic sense of self-assurance displaces all doubt. A delicious rage quickens his pulse, fueled by the sins and shortcomings of lesser mortals, who are soiling the world wherever he looks. 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