Patton Oswalt Poignancy

“Just because you like something in a book doesn’t mean that you have the thing you like in the book happen in real life. That’s what crazy people want. I can’t go to the White House with a bunch of Green Lantern comics and go, ‘I want a Green Lantern Ring! I saw it in a book I like. Make the thing in the book I like appear now.’ I would be justifiably tased if I did that. No one would go ‘You have to respect everyone’s beliefs.’ No, you don’t. You have to acknowledge everyone’s beliefs then you have to reserve the right to go, ‘That is stupid. Are you kidding me?’ I acknowledge you believe that. That’s great but I’m not going to respect it.” Patton Oswalt Stand-Up

The overall point is people have to stabilize and weigh things with logic, rationality, and thought. Extremists as we all know believe whacked out beliefs. There is allegory then there is actually attempting to live life through something that wasn’t either actual or meant to make a point. Even the Bible had parables that weren’t meant to be taken to the letter. Any religious text has them.