If anyone has any evidence of any good coming from these people I wish they would pass it along I would desperately like to be privy to any such information.
Does Anything Good Ever Come From Radical & Fanatic Religious Sects?
Depends on who's side your on. God/Jesus was thought to be by his own religious leaders/self appointed to be a radical sect.at least that is what they used to have him hunted down and crucified.and as Jesus's followers will be and have been crucified,whipped ,stoned,torn apart by lions and burned at the stake.Now that said any religious,radical sect,fanatics looked at by man outside of the one God's/Jesus's reign/law/guidance are just that/outside of what God had intended and put into written word for direction on how to act/react/proclaim this is from the one and only God of the jews/Jesus the christ the God of the gentiles who have accepted him as lord and savior.so only in one case thought of by man as being a radical have we gained anything of value/worth/salvation. The rest are just man's misled ideals of how to force their belief on others. As we know Jesus/God made flesh the holy trinity/Godhead let's man of his own free will decide if he is who he says and showed he was to the world.as far as what was mentioned in your question again that is man acting without God's guidance/they have taken the law of man and God in their own hands and acted against it. This is about all i know.
There are some benefits; the long term ones can be beneficial to many people, but the short term ones usually only do good for the fanatics themselves. Hitler solved a lot of Germany's problems in the wake of WWI, and his regime was responsible for making huge strides in technology. The Crusades eventually lead to the Renaissance, and without them we pretty much wouldn't have the modern world. Religious fanaticism can also help a people to protect their culture for thousands of years (if not cram it down the throats of all who submit).
They help us identify the lunatic fringe.
No, religious fanaticism of any sort (from Taliban to Pentecostal) is a *bad* thing, and the sooner we're rid of all that superstitious nonsense, the better. The good news is that most of the world is becoming more secular every year, and Church attendance is crumbling.
