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bigbadfeline 17 hours ago

> Once you do that, everyone that matters will believe 2+2=5

It doesn't stop there. From the OP:

>> "Dr. Robert Fuller: Eric Hoffer wrote a book called The True Believer 60 years ago. How do you become a true believer in a cause? Someone for whom rationality is now gone. It's an all-out emotional—I'm the true believer. I do not question. And he observed something. You can have a true believer, you can have a vibrant fanatic cause without a God, but you cannot have a fanatic cause without a devil. And when we rally around a common enemy, there's cohesion, unity, and all-out effort. The whole concept of the Antichrist or there being some satanic adversary that we must compete fosters a crisis mentality. And with the crisis mentality, now we put aside all other differences. There's a tribal cohesion, a tribal unity, and it justifies even immoral acts because to defeat an evil enemy, a satanic enemy, you must then do whatever's necessary. So it can therefore justify extremism and it can justify what would otherwise be reprehensible behavior is now looked at as even holy, sacred and a duty for the true believer."