Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee....pretty much anyone on the right who is religious gets labeled a religious zealot....don't you know that you can be religious without being a psycho freak?
FYI - I'm not religious at all....
2007-11-01 04:00:53 · 10 answers · asked by smellyfoot ™ 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I can, but Earnest T is a religious zealot!
2007-11-01 04:23:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Religious zealots are extremists and they are not religious. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are religious persons terms as zealots just because they are candidates.
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2007-11-01 04:05:15 · answer #2 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently not since doing so would undermine their agenda.
It's sort of like playing the 'race card'. If you can play the 'religious card' by calling a person of faith a 'religious extremist', whether or not they are by any measure, then you believe that this undermines your opponent's credibility. And you need to remember. To many atheists, ANY proclamation of faith labels the person of faith an extremist. Simply having faith is sufficient. Look at the attitude of many when the speak of Bush's 'talking to God'. They react as though this is the height of religious extremism and yet there is not a person of faith in the entire world that does not 'speak' to their maker in some form or another. After all, what is prayer? What is meditation. So it would seem that 'faith' is the prejudice of the 21st century. The mind set is little different, though perhaps not yet as extreme, as that of some redneck back in the sixties wearing a hood and burning a cross. It's just ignorance given voice.
2007-11-01 04:18:47 · answer #3 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anybody on the right who is religious will be labeled as a "religious zealot", a "Christian bigot", or an "intolerant extremist" by liberals. It's just a fact of life. Liberals will complain about "intolerance" all day long, but they will only tolerate things they WANT to tolerate - and people of faith are not included in that list.
2007-11-01 04:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by The Truth Hurts! Ouch! 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is religious walks the walk and talks the talk.
A zealot preverts this religous beliefs to get what they want.
Case in point Bush is religious and doesn't go around bragging about his faith. He has mention G-d or Jesus far less than Bill Clinton.
Yet the way liberals talk that is all Bush talks about.
Zealot Muslim terrorists and Westover Baptist Church.
2007-11-01 04:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The label "zealot" should be sparingly used. Those who label Romney and the Huckster as zealots are acting out of bigotry and fear.
2007-11-01 04:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What you are witnessing is a concerted effort to paint Christians as radical and as dangerous as Radical Islamists . This movement was well on it's way before 9/11 , but have used the terrorists actions as distorted examples of what Christians do .
Just go ahead and ask a question like "Do you think Radical Islamists are dangerous' and surely you will get responses like "All radical extremist religions are dangerous' or ' Radical Islamists are dangerous and so are Christian Radicals '.
These people hate God , or hate Christians , or simply hate anything or anybody who has anything to do with Christianity . A new twist on the phenomenon of hating Jewish people .
AND ALL OF THIS 100% COURTESY OF LIBERALS !
2007-11-01 04:19:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
IMO, anyone who supports the notion that religious beliefs should be given force of law IS a religious zealot, a wacko, a theocrat -- unAmerican. The Roman Catholics believe that a second marriage by a divorced person is NOT sanctioned by God, so they don't recognize these marriages. But you don't see them trying to make it ILLEGAL. Any RC who advocated that divorce and remarriage be made illegal would be a ZEALOT. The same principle applies to people who seek to give force of law to their faith-based disapproval of abortion, marijuana, same sex unions, gambling, and so on. If you don't want to be labeled a zealot, then stop trying to give your beliefs the force of law.
2007-11-01 04:17:22 · answer #8 · answered by kill_yr_television 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Their is a huge distinction, Non believers are being held against their will via devil and his forces being dragged far off from their salvation by using Jesus Christ and the believers have got here across that salvation yet would desire to safeguard it for the duration of the firestorm that devil throws at each and every of them on a daily basis. this is a combat for all of them.
2016-11-09 22:44:16 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in my opinion. Anyone who actually believes in Mormonism or that evolution is not true is a zealot.
2007-11-01 04:08:40 · answer #10 · answered by Earl Grey 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋