#WordWeavers 2025.05.16 — Antagonist POV: What do you like the most about yourself? CW: Zealotry
Ezekiel Stan managed to get a number of townships to form a coalition with him, even though that got them isolated from the rest of the planet. Turns out he got interviewed once and answered that question.
"I stood up. I will do the hard thing, like I did building the first settlements on Mars. When the colonization company went bankrupt, I recognized the opportunity to fashion Mars into a perfect Kingdom of God and took that opportunity despite pushback from the other directors. The ungodly are easy to intimidate, especially if you back up your words with action, when you get the job done and ask permission later, if then needed at all. I found men that were able to take up the good cause, to fight—modern Zealots willing to shred the bounds of our corrupt society, to whip the misguided until they see the light or cower, to gag the voices of the harlots and perverted, so that we can raise generations of children protected from hearing other than the Good Word, never sullied by the temptations and demonic ways of the unfortunates left behind on Earth. What I do is noble and shows the worth of a man."
BTW: He's the villain.
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