>>Fanaticism, OTOH, can happen in any movement. There are always people who will take whatever belief they have and enforce it upon others, in any form - be it religious fanaticism, or nationalism, or beating the fans of the other club, or provoking a barroom brawl, or spreading dirty propaganda against other options, or finding any other way to do something against people different from us.
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>Right. And there is no practical way to outlaw it. The last thing we need is to have religion speakeasies popping up all over the place where you knock softly on a door and when a guy opens a little window in the door, you whisper, "Ezekiel sent me" to be allowed in.

Oh no, not again. Within a few generations they have an emperor proclaimed a saint for having slain thousands of their opponents, and announcing them as official.