Holy Fools Dept.

More on willful stupidity:

Holy Ignorance by Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

This is what the French anthropologist Olivier Roy calls holy ignorance. It is not a failure of intelligence, but a proud refusal to know things tainted by the arrogance of inevitability. He writes: There is a close link between secularization and religious revivalism, which is not a reaction against secularization, but the product of it. Secularism engenders religion. The defenders of the lost...