- 04 Apr, 2021
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Eric Hoffer / Holocaust
Instructions
“To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It isstartling to realize how much unbelief is necessaryto make belief possible.What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs. It is the true believer’s ability to “shut his eyes and stop his ears” to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. Strength of faith. . . manifests itself notin moving mountains but in not seeing mountains move. And it is the certitude of his infallible doctrine that renders the true believer impervious to the uncertainties, surprises and the unpleasant realities of the world around him.Thus the effectiveness of a doctrine should not be judged by it’s profundity, sublimity or the validity of the truths it embodies, but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from his self and the world as it is.”