Frank

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is that it is not the Jewish Banking Conspiracy or the Gray Aliens or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is far more frightening: Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless. —ALAN MOORE, THE MINDSCAPE OF ALAN MOORE (2003)”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads. Such arguments in support of their fixed idea as they hit upon themselves or hear set forth by others, no matter how simple and stupid these may be, gain their instant acceptance and applause. On the other hand whatever is brought forward against it, however ingenious and conclusive, they receive with disdain or with hot rage—if indeed it does not make them ill. Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. —GALILEO GALILEI, DIALOGUE CONCERNING THE TWO CHIEF WORLD SYSTEMS (1632)”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Christian nationalism cannot turn back secularism, because it is just another form of it. In fact, it is an even more virulent form of secularism because it pronounces as “Christian” what cannot stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ.”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America