Damaging Legalistic Religion – Jim Fowler

Many have had experiences in rule-based, legalistic religion that casts everything into arbitrary right or wrong categories. Such believe-right, do-right religion can leave a person with a damaged psyche of perfectionist moralism that affects their personality and operational perspectives. The authoritative and judgmental orientation of such religion often leaves a person with an elitist attitude of thinking they know everything and everyone else should conform to what they believe. They judgmentally view and accept others based on their conformity to their belief-system. The entire system of legalistic religion orients people to themselves. ...