Spiritual ideology can mask obsessive-compulsive and despotic behavior

Evidence

You have no direct influence on a person’s beliefs, but you certainly do on the resulting behavior. … Some people seek the corset of a very strict regulation of everyday life, which is glossed over and exaggerated by a spiritual ideology. Behind this, however, there can also be obsessive-compulsive disorders, rituals of anxiety defense and despotic behavior, disguised as spiritual obligation. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 458

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contemplative serenity in prose conceals a hidden violence of authority. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 113; Belief in spirits is Idealism’s degradation, the literal death of mind — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 266

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