re: #88 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

(Adjusting tinfoil hat)
You have to wonder what kind of pay-off would induce the pulpit-pimps to risk killing off their own marks. We cannot discount the possibility that they are just stupid and blinded by greed, but there may be something more sinister at work as well. …

I don’t ascribe malice when simple stupidity or delusion are likely answers.

Religious extremism arises out of deep personal needs. These needs are not malicious, just problematic.