Fanaticism 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/20/2022
Fanaticism May be Alarming, but It's Not New
by Zachary R. Goldsmith
The term "fanatic" evolved from a value-neutral name for participants in Roman religious cults to describe someone with dangerous and erroneous beliefs in religion and then in modern politics. Philosophers from Kant to Burke show the need to pull back from such absolute judgments of our adversaries.
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