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What does it mean?
Persecutors often hide behind false religious zeal.
In plain terms
Bad acts hide as religious zeal.
What can you take from it?
Watch zeal that harms others.

Where it applies

  • religious conflict
  • bias

Putting it to work

  • challenge harm
  • stay humble

Questions to consider

  • When does zeal go wrong?
  • How do you judge intent?

Another view

Belief can also inspire good.

More from Edmund Burke

  1. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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  2. One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.

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  3. They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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