The night after watching the Apollo 11 moon landing, I snuck out of the house to look at the fat crescent of the moon high in the sky and thought, ‘There are people up there!’
I didn’t know it then but—at the age of five—I had just lost my religion.
Tag: True Believer
My term for a zealot, broadly defined. That is, “a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals*.”
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True Believers cannot be reasoned, bullied, or bargained with. Inasmuch as this species of fanaticism is, by definition, an unreasoning position—involving as it does absolute certainty about questions of fact—True Believers are clinically delusional. In large enough groups, this makes them the most dangerous type of human.
