What Eric Hoffer thinks about religion

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Longshoreman and social philosopher (1902 to 1983, by his own account of his birth) whose The True Believer (1951) argued that mass movements draw frustrated people who seek to escape themselves, whatever the movement's doctrine.

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1. c. 1951

   Our readingThe less excellence people can claim for themselves, the more they claim for their nation, race or cause

   Their wordsThe less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

   ↗The True Believer (Harper & Row printing of the 1951 book)archive.org All 6 from this book