Martiriul – fanatism sau jertfă

Abstract

Sacrifiice and fanaticism are two opposite notions, because sacrifiicing yourself means doing what you do not like, making a decision that would situate you in a conflict of interests with yourself. After having very carefully weighed and concluded that you will have lost something very precious, not pushed by their circumstance, but forced by one’s own conscience, one has chosen this hard road, only because of convictions that put only you in harm’s way and only by coercion from the rulers of society.
If you analyze the situation from the perspective of the social context, one is enticed to chose physical redemption, but one choses to suffer on a physical level in the hope of a purely spiritual plane, that one desires more than the palpable one.
This belief in life after death conquers the preservation instinct and the call of the flesh, of opportunism.