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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

faces. If the customer has children in tow, compliments will be
rained down upon them.
Assume that poor customers enter the same shop. If it is appar-
ent from their clothes and general appearance that they have little
money, no one in the shop will show much interest in them. Nobody
will even approach them unless they ask a question of one of the
staff. If they ask to see anything, it will be brought out very slowly
and reluctantly. The staff will generally not produce anything else
for that customer's inspection. In addition, the sales assistants will
wear bored, irritated expressions, since the staff will want those cus-
tomers to leave as quickly as possible. They will deliberately glance
outside when fulfilling that customer's wishes or else chat with
someone else in the shop. If the customers have children in tow, they
will irritably ask them to keep an eye on them.
This example is most instructive in revealing the attitude of
Ignorantism, because this logic and behavior can also be seen in
bank cashiers, waiters, tailors, and grocers. Wherever you go in the
world, you can see similar behavior in people who live far removed
from proper religious moral values.
In the Religion of the Ignorant, for someone to be shown respect
and interest, that person must possess obvious material means. The
greater that person's fortune, the greater the admiration felt for them
by members of Ignorantism. When you go to a restaurant, for in-
stance, you see that wealthy customers are the subject of great inter-
est and concern. Indeed, if they are best-known celebrities, it's
unlikely that their money will be accepted at all. Their very presence
in the restaurant is regarded as an honor, and they are not asked to
pay their bill. Yet if a poor person hasn't have enough money, there
will be a huge scene. He will be shouted at, humiliated and thrown
out. In other words, no money at all will be requested from the

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