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TL;DR: The article explores the destructive nature of fanaticism and its impact on humanity, highlighting the common ideals shared by all religions and their potential for healing and peace.

Abstract: Holy war, suicide bombings, fighting for faith, and killing in the name of God from Crusaders to terrorists, from sacred shrines to New York City, history is tainted by a grave disease afflicting humankind. This cancer of the heart ravages reason and emotion, breeding numb and blind souls who claw to their belief in desperate defense for meaning. Only infected fanatics are capable of twisting the sacred guidance common to all faiths into a weapon against the faithful. They leave their marks on time but they can not change the ideals shared by all religions; wisdom that can help heal and instill a peace that consoles us from inflicting more suffering.