You evade my original point, which was to dispute your position on zealotry. Would the zealous Baptists disagree with me on that?
The point is that zealotry, when used to attack kids, is wrong. To say such exuberance is fine and dandy provided one worships the “right” creed is nonsensical.
There’s a distinct difference between ‘zeal’ and ‘fanaticism’, whatever your religious or political persuasion. Even in support of the ‘Truth’ (itself an inherently subjective term) if your ‘zeal’ extends to assaulting everyone who doesn’t share your precise beliefs, you’re either following a false ‘Truth’ or you’ve left its path.
If you’re defining the behaviour of these animals as ‘zeal’, generic or otherwise, then this IS the problem, just as much as or more than ‘falsehood’. It’s not whether their beliefs are or aren’t ‘true’ that’s the issue here. It’s how they’re choosing to express them, and who (in this case an 8 year old girl) they’re choosing to express them to.
As a fellow Catholic, I passionately disagree, for example, with abortion. I may personally be in no doubt that my beliefs here equate to the ‘Truth.’ However, if I then elect to express such opinions by screaming insults and threats at some young girl who I believe has had, or may be considering having, an abortion, I’m not only failing to further my opinions effectively. I’ve left the path of ‘Truth’ and am misrepresenting and contradicting it.
Since all zealots believe they are acting in the cause of the true faith, and since “God” never arranges for the correct ones to triumph, I’d say zealotry is indeed the problem.