A zealot is someone who is extremely passionate and dedicated to a particular cause, belief, or ideology, often to an excessive or extreme degree. Full definition
People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
When you're dealing with a group of zealots who don't require plausible expanations or facts, anything becomes reasonable in their primitive minds. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The Taliban is looking for religious zealots who want to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of their country and take women's rights back 100 years. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)