The procedural aspect that largely constitutes Judeo-Christian belief (for example)-and even ritual identification with the hero, to some degree (the "imitation of Christ")-almost inevitably remains intact (at least in the case of the "respectable citizen'). The modern educated individual therefore "acts out" but does not "believe." It might be said that the lack of isomorphism between explicit abstract self-representation and actions undertaken in reality makes for substantial existential confusion-and for susceptibility to sudden dominance by any ideology providing a "more complete"
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