Page 27 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

protest behavior, or adopting an opposite position even when one
actually shares a particular idea; refusing to speak about certain at-
tributes, even though one actually possesses them, and waiting for
others to bring up the subject; engaging in false modesty when these
subjects are raised, so as to give the impression that one has other la-
tent superior features that one hesitates to mention out of a sense of
modesty.

Observing One's Own Interests
By engaging in insincere behavior, people hope to obtain vari-
ous advantages. Seeking to appear pleasant to someone one does
not like but who can serve one's interests, acting sycophantically
and seeking to attract a person's notice at every opportunity, trying
to make oneself popular, displaying false loyalty to and respect for
one's employer or superior but immediately turning disloyal as
soon as circumstances change—these are all normal forms of behav-
ior in adherents of Ignorantism.
Failing to tell the truth one knows in hopes of acquiring an ad-
vantage or out of fear or hesitation; and glossing over the subject
with talk of democracy and the like, are other examples of such be-
havior.

Showing Off
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diver-
sion and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and
trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-
growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers
and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.
In the Hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness

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