Check it. In this blog, first I offerer a quote and then I invite viewers' commentary. Viewers who like psychology and philosophy will quite enjoy this, I hope.

This is a passage from The Dictionary of Ideas on the downside of blindly accepting authority.

"At its worst, this means that the capacity for intellectual honesty as well as for religious experience is profoundly damaged and psychic infantilism in religious matters is encouraged. It means als that the sense of relativity is lost and that religious symbols cannot be appreciated as such. Then dogmatic literalism or verbal fundamentalism becomes the believer's surrogate for deep religious awareness." (Mary Daly).

I tried this in a period of my life, and it created a mess of inner conflicts in me, which I was told was the work of the dark side. It took me some time and maturing to realize no, my conflict was born out of a need to have a rational or systematic clearing of doubts and natural questions, that should they be consistenly answered would conclude in conviction/belief. Whereas, what I was experiencing and being coerced into was to believe with total conviction, and really not process the natural doubts and questions, or at best, do so selectively. Thankfully, my questioning side won out and eventually it took me to new vistas, liberating vistas.

Have you experienced this phenom within yourself or observed it play out with others? Please share about it.