Word: fanaticisme
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Who, then, decided that Jesus must die, and what were the reasons? In Brown's reading, Jesus' judges were a loosely defined group of Jewish aristocrats led by Caiaphas, the high priest who survived 18 years in the post. The Sanhedrin members were reacting to perceived threats to their faith...
"The main aim of the Harvard Persian Society is to inform the Harvard community that Persian culture stands for many things other than terrorism and fanaticism," Fariborz said.
Everyone who knew him growing up agrees that Benjamin Goldstein -- Benjy, as they called him -- was a religious boy. In Bensonhurst, his middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, the piety of his Orthodox Jewish family set them apart from more secular Jewish neighbors. Though his father worked for the New York...
Good-old-days virtue . . . imminent decay. But that may be a misleading distinction -- an artificial paradigm that at its worst produces false conflicts, as between a kind of droolingly permissive liberalism and a family- values fanaticism.
Yet the wild fanaticism with which we pursued these academic giants wore off in a few days, after realizing that they were not made of kryptonite. Instead, they were real people, as awestruck and mystified as we were by the grandeur and history that constantly surrounded us.