My mum was a long-time Sunday school teacher. She was one of my Sunday school teachers. She taught stuff to vulnerable kids, as if that stuff was history, that had been proved to be fiction 80 years before she was even born.
But she told those lies just as she had been lied to about it in her turn. And she was never even slightly resentful, any time reality conflicted with that received myth, that she had been lied to. She never was angry with the lying liars.
Nope. Far from it. What she was angry about was if anyone told her she had been lied to. She’d get mad at the revelation that she had been taught… lies.
And in there we can find the reason the world has taken this insane turn to the Reich. People are not bothered much about the lies they have internalized, or the liars that lied to them. What makes them angry, what makes them violent and genocidal, is being told they were lied to.
And that is the human nature that we need better secular education to counter. Because once a person has grown to adulthood believing a load of nonsense, they are forever going to be painfully resistant to correcting their misconceptions.
