“Group action -- yes; group thinking -- no”
Norman Lamm (1927) American rabbi
Seventy faces: articles of faith (2002)
“Group-think is a substitute for God-think. The belief is that God is found only by our group. The next step is to establish that identification with our group as the only way to serve God.”
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 82
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