RELIGIOUS FANATISM IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE'S PHILOSOPHY OF HUMANISM

Abstract

Fanaticism is a tendency that occurs when someone has reached an exclusive stage about what they consider to be right. Religion basically adopts a type of faith that can encourage a person or group of people to become fanatical about their own group, so that it results in the injury of human values such as a series of acts of terrorism and persecution. Basically, religion encourages the creation of a harmonious life based on moral standards that it claims as absolute truth; submitting to God and respecting the holy book by following the direction of religious figures. The doctrine of absolutism in religious faith leads to fanatical loyalty, so that religion often becomes a costume for opportunistic individuals. This study departs from the problem of fanaticism in religion, how it then slowly damages human values without a few of its own followers realizing it. This study departs from the perspective of Jean Paul Sartre's atheistic existentialism to describe the phenomena that occur. The research method used is qualitative with the approach of Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism philosophy. In collecting data, researchers use the library research method by collecting data from books, journals, articles, and other reading materials with related themes. The results of this study show that fanaticism has led to bias and suspicion towards others, and religion in this case is a factor that actually makes humans objectify each other, a problem discussed by Sartre in his philosophy.