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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE TRUTH?

considered acceptable in the future. Cannibalism is regarded as
very normal in some societies, and unconditionally obeying a
crazy leader in a fascist society (like Nazi Germany) was consid-
ered absolutely right for the people who followed and supported
him at that time. The number of examples is legion, but in short,
what we would like to stress on is that cogitating independently
upon society's false conditioning, is conduct which betokens wis-
dom in the thinker. Such a person is necessarily aware that the
"values" imposed by society may be wrong and may lead to ethi-
cal dilemmas if adopted.
Religion – especially today – is one of the most important
subjects about which countless prejudices are produced by soci-
ety. Especially the indoctrination carried out by some part of the
media has formed many prejudices about religion, which are
hard to overcome for some people.
As a result of totally false indoctrinations, religion has be-
come a concept which most people either do not consider impor-
tant, or do not feel the need to think upon and prefer to stay
away from as far as possible. People in this mindset cannot be
said, however, to have adopted such an attitude consciously.
These people would probably claim, when asked, that they are
devout, although religion may be one of the less important mat-
ters of their life.
Indeed, such a person has never given any serious thought
to religion and to his own ideas and attitudes towards religion,
not even for once in his life. He probably has never pondered
about the reason why moral values of religion exist. . According
to his flase perspective, religion is a matter that generally con-

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