[The]…need to belong…can drive people to become members of groups. If the container is strong, all is well and good. But when the group lacks…authenticity, people may…refuse to acknowledge the differences between them. This cannot go on forever and so the group either becomes authoritarian and expels its doubters and heretics, or it fragments into cliques until the pressures become too great and the entire group breaks apart.
—F. David Peat, Return of the Sacred: Seven Encounters between Science, the Arts, and the Sacred #groups
