He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.
Craig FergusonTag: power humanity religion church gullibility sheep
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTag: love hatred gullibility
It's called the Infinity Effect.
Edward M. WolfeTag: energy power infinity funny apocalypse gullibility effect disaster apocalyptic radio catastrophe mirror disasters catastrophes post-apocalyptic mirrors battery nuclear silly nuclear-bomb batteries in-the-end wolfe gullible apocalipse edward-wolfe b-o-b bug-out-bag carries-energy energy-company first-strike mushroom-cloud particle-wave power-company power-outage transistor transistor-radios transistors
The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery. Both fear and superstition are forms of a contagious disease.
The ignorance of man produced natural fears of the elements of nature. What he could not understand he attributed to malevolent spirits whose primary purpose was to punish and harm him. Under this spell it seems almost incredible that he ever advanced from his state of primitive ignorance.
His fears produced such fantastic monsters of the air that it was first necessary to relieve his tormented mind of these terrifying myths of ghosts and gods before he was able to acquire even the simplest rudiments of knowledge.
Man's ignorance and fears made him an easy prey of priests. His gullibility was such that he believed everything he was told. He soon became a slave to these liars and hypocrites.
Tag: fear education ignorance control superstition gullibility liars deceit hypocrites
People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.
Charles FortTag: philosophy belief psychology gullibility charles-fort
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
Malcolm MuggeridgeTag: evolution joke credulity gullibility darwin posterity neo-darwinism closed-mindedness theory-of-evolution
It was easy enough to invent theological-sounding passages, provided you used the right language. Most people presumed you were quoting something too obscure for them to recognise.
Alex ScarrowTag: faith credulity gullibility
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