Soren Kierkegaard once suggested that, "the majority of people are not so afraid of holding a wrong opinion, as they are of holding an opinion alone."
Schultze observes, "In other words, we human beings are social creatures who tend to go along with what other people believe rather than venture courageously in an unpopular direction. We are more fearful of being thought crazy than wrong, as long as we have the comfort of being mistaken with others. Ignorance loves company. We are creatures of fashionable, even if sometimes foolish, ideas." (The Journal of Communication and Religion, March 2005)
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