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“It's not that smart people aren't capable of believing in cultish things; instead, says [Michael] Shermer, it's that smart people are better at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“Think carefully about the consequences of your actions not because you fear punishment, but because what you do is powerful.”
― Joyce Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions

“What many Americans heard about Jews they got from Henry Ford, operating out of a Michigan base less than three hundred miles from Indianapolis. His newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, was a fire hose of anti-Semitism and reached a peak circulation of nearly one million readers.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“Destructive beliefs don't hurt the Divine, but they can hurt us, our society, and our world. We have the right to insist that the beliefs we adopt, even about Divinity, be healthy and productive and serve us well.”
― Joyce Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions