The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.
T. S. Eliot
I've read this a few times, but I'm still not seeing anything except "Non-believers are dummies, ha!", and I wonder if that's all there is to it or if I'm just getting blocked by my "oh-crap-what-did-he-say-about-my-tribe?" alarms going off.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: