The cure for fanaticism

The cure for fanaticism:

a good dose of reality;

in serious cases multiple doses of reality may be required, applied liberally;

in the severest cases nothing works except death; in such cases the patient usually asks for it.

Maybe Alabama's Ellin Jimmerson should get a new Bible

Quoted here:

"[O]ur idea of one man one woman in a union based on love just doesn't appear in the Bible."

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 

-- Mark 10:7ff.

My sin hurts you, your sin hurts me

No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

MEDITATION XVII
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
John Donne 

I don't wonder why God allowed ISIS to burn a man alive

I wonder why we allowed them to.