'Coz, Folks, Once you Start Down This No Exit Road(way) of Defacing, Vandalizing and Otherwise (Effectively) Raping and Pillaging One's Cultural Heritage, What is Left and Where Does This Self-Congratulatory Round of Virtue-Signalling All End? I'LL TELL YOU WHERE: in the Dystopic World of the 20th-Century's Arguably Most Well-Known Author, THAT'S WHERE: i.e. in George Orwell's ('nee': Eric Blair)'s 1984; Which, to Paraphrase J R R Tolkien's Smeagol/Gollum (as rendered in Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens et al's Cinematic Version of 'The Lord of the Rings')..."is not [a] decent place[.]" to be...
However, as another well-known student of humanity once put it, there are none so blind as those who will not see...
You see, fanaticism is an incurable condition from which very few ever escape, and whose victims and other 'collateral damage' are often legion...
...though history records one incredible example of someone who escaped from its clutches, and went on to help turn his world upside down for the LORD, the Apostle Saul/Paul, who ended up writing around a quarter of the New Testament, and was either author or chief 'actor' in over half of its 27-odd books...
You see, fanaticism is an incurable condition from which very few ever escape, and whose victims and other 'collateral damage' are often legion...
...though history records one incredible example of someone who escaped from its clutches, and went on to help turn his world upside down for the LORD, the Apostle Saul/Paul, who ended up writing around a quarter of the New Testament, and was either author or chief 'actor' in over half of its 27-odd books...
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