False neutrality is propaganda.

"The only thing more unsettling than having your faith shaken is having your lack of faith shaken."

-- William Alexander, 52 Loaves

"...you only want me to
know your hunger
you do not want
food"

-- scrap of Anonymous poem, featured in a Powerpoint

Haym Soloveitchik on Custom

"Custom is potent, but its true power is informal. It derives from the ability of habit to neutralize the implications of book knowledge. Anything learned from study that conflicts with accustomed practice cannot really be right, things simply can't be different than they are."

-- Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy" Tradition, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Summer 1994)  Accessed from: http://www.lookstein.org/links/orthodoxy.htm