Page 79 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

of attitudes peculiar to the Religion of the Ignorant.
In traffic, people tend to disparage drivers around them and
do all they can to demonstrate how little worth they attach to them.
They refuse to give way to one another. If someone behind them
blows the horn, they regard this as an insult and deliberately drive
very slowly, in order not to be browbeaten. They criticize all the
other drivers around them, and frequently make rude hand sig-
nals. Whenever you take a taxi or a bus, you can often hear them
shout inside their cars, "Are you blind? Keep your eyes open! You
could get a battleship through there! You're not the only one in a
hurry!"
The fiercest conflicts, thus the strongest reactions of
Ignorantism, emerge in the wake of accidents. Invariably, when
two cars crash into each other, each driver casts blame on the other.
In all probability, the guilty party will strongly deny any responsi-
bility. Both sides tend to put on displays of anger, shouting and try-
ing to browbeat the other. If that fails, they put on temper
tantrums, imagining that this will intimidate the other party into
admitting guilt. If this, too, is insufficient, they may resort to phys-
ical violence to protect their image.
It is generally imagined that in situations of this kind people
start fighting because they are unable to stop themselves. The fact
is, however, that behavior of this sort is a requirement of the
Religion of the Ignorant and is planned right down to the finest de-
tail. People involved in traffic accidents have already learned by
heart the gestures they will employ and even the words they will
use as they get out of their vehicles. As soon as an accident takes
place they automatically start implementing these rules they have
learned by rote. These gestures and words, common to all parts of
the world, are thus resorted to as a requirement of Ignorantism.

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