{"id":703,"date":"2012-10-31T07:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T07:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=703"},"modified":"2016-01-01T07:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T07:51:46","slug":"belief-in-a-devil-is-essential-to-fanatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Belief in a devil&#8217; is essential to fanatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 31, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMass movements can rise and spread without a belief in God, but never without belief in a devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Eric Hoffer in his landmark analysis of fanaticism, \u201cThe True Believer\u201d (1951)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Hoffer\u2019s point was impressively made in the day-care mania. In no case I\u2019ve found \u2013 in this country at least \u2013 did religion play a significant factor. To the contrary, several ministers and churches were on the receiving end of wrongful prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 31, 2012 \u201cMass movements can rise and spread without a belief in God, but never without belief in a devil.\u201d \u2013 Eric Hoffer in his landmark analysis of fanaticism, \u201cThe True Believer\u201d (1951) Hoffer\u2019s point was impressively made in the day-care mania. In no case I\u2019ve found \u2013 in this country at least \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}