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Re: Your beliefs
The First World War destroyed not only millions of lives, but also the old, comforting social orders. People found themselves in a world where there was nothing much left to believe in. God took a real mauling in the conflict; not many who experienced the carnage on the Western Front, could hold on to their largely unquestioned religious beliefs. So one is stuck with lots of "isms": secularism, materialism, existentialism, communism (wich seemed merely to replace "god" with "party") national socialism (which seemed to elevate "satan") and many others one can think of. Add to this a developing science which, if it did nothing else, called into question the whole idea of "reality" and "fact."
When the props are gone, a convenient way ... maybe the only one ... out of the uncertainty is to believe strongly in something. There doesn't seem to be much, other than belief, keeping a lid on insanity and chaos. A quick glance at any major newspaper will show that the lid is not on all that tightly.
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