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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5688921" data-attributes="member: 25619">Do you think Jeanne d'Arc would agonize over whether or not to escape from the English?  Or would she do it without a second thought, to get on with the holy war the voices in her head told her to pursue?(Attempting not to draw the wrath of the moderators.) Think of a recent war leader who spoke a lot in religious terms.  Was he a deep thinker, or a shoot from the gut guy who made the calls as he saw them?  You can disagree with his calls, but I think his religious calling was genuine and he was genuinely trying to "do what God wants".Holy zeal and quite contemplation are not necessarily related.I think you're projecting a certain personality type (SJ accountant types, perservers of institutions and traditions) as being paladins, perhaps because those are the religious people you know.  Those people would stay home and run a parish, not head to the dungeon to crush God's enemies!I think paladins are actually more likely to be NF personalities -- spiritual and intuitive Questor types, in tune with what their god wants, and seeking the holy truth.Precisely my view.Instead, paladins are true to their god.</blockquote>