The Crisis of Faith in Modern Society

The crisis of faith that characterizes modern society is a reflection of the permanent crisis of faith that characterizes human beings./nThe totalitarian is afraid of the unknown, for good reason, and he's very interested in sustaining his own belief structure./nThe combination of those two things, it can start off trivially, is that the more you're convinced that you have to maintain the ity of your current belief structure, the more afraid you are of going of anything that's unknown. And the more afraid you are of anything that's unknown, the less likely you are to go out and explore it. And then the less likely you are to go out and explore it, the weaker you get.