For true believers, denying their beliefs with facts and logic will shake their sense of self to the core. This explains why it is easier to often stay convinced of the fantasy world rather than leave the coven. Watching the Netflix series In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal about Korean cults, it is disconcerting to see those closer to the top of the pyramid having less true faith than objective goals of material gratification.
The origins for this expression “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” came from the 1878 novel Molly Brown by Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Today, the phrase is taken to mean what one person finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another. The reality, which is always somewhere in between, is being reinterpreted through things like our artistic sense and belief systems.
