Sometimes the fruits of fanaticism reveal their origin so drastically that their bearers are forced as well to characterize them as a bad phenomenon. We should not be confused when we see their preachers criticize the very kind of fanaticism which they had stirred themselves by the way of their preaching. Such trick of self justification is applied by Sai Baba too:

"On that day, after a short conversation, he chose several young men of his age (physically) to race him from rock to a tree on top. But before they could open and close their eyes, Baba had already been calling them from the top. He asked others to stand where they were and cried to each one of them: Look at me, I give you a burning 'darshan' of the vision of light! Suddenly, there was an enormous ball of fire, like the sun, which penetrated the atmosphere. It was impossible to watch that ball with one's eyes open. Three to four disciples fainted and fell down."

"He (Sai) keeps repeating without stopping - miracles are not important. The real miracle is ... the love that he plants in your heart!" (Skript. Sai Baba)

Let us think about Sai Baba's miracle with the ball of fire in the light of the biblical prophecy from the Book of Revelation 13:13-14:

"And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; ..."

Let us compare Sai Baba's claim that he is the Messiah and his phenomenon with the Biblical verses which deal with the difference between the true and false Christs:

"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:23-27)

The principle of false self-criticism and self justification of fanaticism we meet in Christian churches, too. In spiritual communities in which, through various miracles, the spirit of excitation and sensation is aroused, we often hear the believers speak: "If people should come here only for the miracles, then they should better not come! It is pitiful that they are more attracted by the sensation than Jesus!"

In the churches which are characterized by the fanaticism out of emotions, we can hear touching and heartbreaking calls not to rely on emotions because they must be neither our criterion nor our aim.

In the end of the sermon which provoked haughtiness and hatred towards the members of a different church, a priest would say: "Please, do not let what you have heard arise anger in you. We love our enemies. We..."

Some traditional Christians would say that breaking of the Second Commandment of Moral Decalogue is if we bow in front of the icons worshipping them. "We should do that respecting them but not worshipping them too", they say. However, temptation is temptation, regardless of how we call it. A sinful heart does not pay attention to that. Only the human conscience sometimes needs an excuse which is in the change of the definition of its behavior. We cannot change the spiritual state of a man by mere reflection but only by admitting and penitence.

God's laws do not bother whether we bow in front of the icons respecting or worshipping them. The Second Commandment of God completely forbids us to bow in front of them in any way (Exodus 20:5).

"For we walk by faith, not by sight:" (2 Corinthians 5:7)

The security a sinner can get through icons and sculptures is psychological only and thus it is of the fatal effect because it suffocates the spiritual needs of a man. (The consciousness of the weakness of his nature and the dependence on the power of God.) The one who relies on the living God does not need any psychological support. (When we talk to someone on the phone, we do not see him and we still do not need to look at his photo in order to make sure that we are speaking to him and in order to build trust in what he tells us.)