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Why Are the Sects Growing?
Posted by editormum on 22 August 2010 in Uncategorized | ∞
The sects and fundamentalists are growing because they offer black-and-white answers to all the unanswerable questions. The frightened person is given all the rules and assured that the few people who keep the rules and accept the answers to the unanswerable questions will be saved, and everybody else will be damned. The damnation of others seems to be a large part of the pleasure of accepting the answers to the unanswerable questions.
— Madeleine L’Engle, in Penguins and Golden Calves