The Fear of Being Wrong

[dahrling]

Does anyone else have it?

I think this is the primary way religious organizations keep themselves afloat.
They intimidate people into accepting their ways by telling them they'll be punished by a god a.k.a the daddy in the sky if they don't comply to their rules.

And it creates a vicious circle, because parents pass on these very same fears to their children.
And it can be very hard to completely get rid of such fears.
Plus there is Stockholm's syndrome. I feel like I had it for awhile, between my time as a fervidly religious person and the time I was "questioning".

Sometimes it feels like religion has short-circuited my brain. It is like it keeps calling me back
And then everything I learned and believed in for a time begin to haunt me: "You are just sinful and you want to do whatever your body tells you to do", "You just have no understanding of god and his plans" "Who are you to question god?" "Can't you see god everywhere?" "You're just being tempted." "This is just a case of the prodigal child. You'll come back" and it goes on and on and on.

Help?