true believers just
don’t see things the way they are
because if they did …
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are.
Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won’t see it…
True believers just don’t see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn’t be true believers anymore.
Philip Caputo in Acts of Faith, Vintage, 2005.
I am not pointing any fingers at anyone who anyone might be thinking of when they think of anyone who thinks they are the True believers.
Far be it from me to suggest that anyone who might be able support the candidacy of a person who is, shall we say, under the cloud of some 90 plus criminal indictments and at the same time is making a public claim of fraud where over 60 court cases have investigated and found no fraud, truly must be believing something.
To paraphrase Mr. Caputo, evidence contrary to the belief can be staring them straight in the face, and they won’t see it.
The act of not seeing marks them as the true believers far more accurately than anything I could accomplish with a little finger pointing.
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