"What had been in his far-off youth a merely aesthetic repugnance to realities that were crude or vulgar, had deepened and darkened, year after year, into a fixed refusal of everything that was in any degree other than himself... He had willed with his whole heart that there should be no reality and no truth, and now even the imminence of his own ruin could not wake him. "
C.S Lewis- That Hideous Strength
I would maintain that those who worship power believe in only those things that further their ambitions. There is not some objective reality to which they are beholden, merely an ever shifting calculation of what would be of greatest benefit to their situation. At a basic level their fear, cowardice, pride and hatred override all other considerations.
