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I once had a woman who was a Jehovah's Witness come to my door peddling her beliefs. When I had the audacity to respond to her that I respected her right to believe as she wished and that I hoped she could respect my right to not believe as she did, I remember her retorting: "I don't believe; I know."
Why do people do that? Do they honestly think that the more emphatic they are about what they believe they know, the more true it actually is?
"So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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