The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God {or Satan} is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
This quote from Stephen King's The Stand captures a profound and provocative idea about how religious fervor can shape human understanding of the world. The phrase "religious mania" immediately signals an intensity, perhaps an excessive zeal, in belief that attributes all phenomena—good or evil—to divine or diabolic intervention. This worldview offers an all-encompassing explanation, which might appear comforting to many; life’s unpredictable and often chaotic nature finds an organizing principle, a...
