RE: Destruction of self confidence
November 15, 2021 at 7:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2021 at 7:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's a pretty good way of putting it. Still..they don't recognize each other..but they also don't appear to be capable of recognizing themselves. Protestants gripe that catholics don't get their christianity from magic book, for example. Well..neither do protestants. What's the problem, right? I wonder if the reported lack of confidence might boil down to having too many principles and beliefs observed to be in conflict with themselves and/or with reality for a person to feel secure.
There's a related phenomena, called intentionally confusing dogma. You read about it in cult studies. This is where the dissonance a person feels when apprehending their religious ideology is a feature, not a bug. Sometimes...in an effort to produce insight that might otherwise evade our conventional thoughts, but more commonly, as a lever of control. Insecure people seek the permission of authority.
What's fun, is that when we say it's to do x, or do y, we're describing the intent of the cult progenitors...but it's not necessary for anyone to do this on purpose. Identical circumstances can be arrived at through composite construction of a faith tradition - as was the case with abrahamic theology. When a person considers their religious parents, it may also be the case that producing insecurity wasn't the intention, merely an effect, but that the effect is so useful to parents as authority we let it slide. Better that our son worries about going to hell for smoking meth - than smoking meth. Better that our daughter feels insecure in her decisions than that she feel completely sure of her soon-to-be mistakes.
There's a related phenomena, called intentionally confusing dogma. You read about it in cult studies. This is where the dissonance a person feels when apprehending their religious ideology is a feature, not a bug. Sometimes...in an effort to produce insight that might otherwise evade our conventional thoughts, but more commonly, as a lever of control. Insecure people seek the permission of authority.
What's fun, is that when we say it's to do x, or do y, we're describing the intent of the cult progenitors...but it's not necessary for anyone to do this on purpose. Identical circumstances can be arrived at through composite construction of a faith tradition - as was the case with abrahamic theology. When a person considers their religious parents, it may also be the case that producing insecurity wasn't the intention, merely an effect, but that the effect is so useful to parents as authority we let it slide. Better that our son worries about going to hell for smoking meth - than smoking meth. Better that our daughter feels insecure in her decisions than that she feel completely sure of her soon-to-be mistakes.
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