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They had an abiding, unbreakable faith without being able to respect that faith’s moral values.
Their argumentation shows clearly that the idea of higher beings and their supernatural abilities (e.g., God in the case of Christianity, forces of nature in the case of witchcraft) means the renunciation of reason and subsequently of justice, leading inevitably to the enslavement of humankind.
At the time, everybody said that God only knew why he had sent such misfortune down on Jakoubek. As everything he did had a reason, perhaps it would become apparent later.

