High authoritarians reduce guilt chiefly by asking God for forgiveness.

Evidence

High RWAs had another, very effective guilt-reduction program that Lows almost never mentioned: they asked God for forgiveness. And boy did that take away the stain, they reported (EOF, pp. 189-190). — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1899

Categorization

• XREF: Bridges to Whitehead & Perry’s Christian-nationalism claims about religious authoritarianism serving psychological functions.
• SEED: The finding that religious confession is an effective psychological guilt-cleansing technology at Lows’ disposal could seed a piece on how religious institutions supply a moral-reset function secular people lack.