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Post date: Apr 25, 2021 3:18:51 PM
When religious individuals are happily committed to faith, they often tend to be fanatically and dogmatically committed in an obsessive compulsive way that itself is hardly desirable... But religion, to a large degree, is fanaticism which, in turn, is an obsessive-compulsive, rigid form of holding to a viewpoint that invariably masks and provides a bulwark for the underlying insecuri ty of the obsessed individual...
(a) It drives most of its adherents to commit themselves to its tenets for the wrong reasons that is, to cover up instead of to face and rid themselves of their basic insecurities; and (b) it encourages a fanatic, obsessive-compulsive kind of commitment that is, in its own right, a form of mental illness...
Obsessiveness and compulsivity... Fanatical religionists are often obsessed with their dogmatically held views and feel compelled to follow them to the letter... They do not merely want things; they demand the world be the way they want... They are driven people and frequently sacrifice their own happiness, and even their lives, because of their obsessive compulsive behaviors... They are rarely relaxed or easygoing, but are overintensely involved with their devout religious goals...
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