2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
A fanatic is a heretic of life, he opposes a living person, mercy and love
“A fanatic, possessed by a persecution mania, sees around the intrigues of the devil, but he himself always persecutes, tortures and executes. A man possessed by a persecution mania, who feels himself surrounded by enemies, is a very dangerous creature, he always becomes a persecutor, it is he who persecutes, not persecutes him."
N. A. Berdyaev
One of their distinctive and obligatory features in the psychological portrait of a religious fanatic is bottomless egocentrism. In the egocentric world of a religious fanatic there is no place for another person, there is no other person's right to a different view, a different judgment, a different way of life. Therefore, it is impossible to build any kind of dialogue with a religious fanatic; dialogue involves a meeting of two different opinions, two different people from each other. Fanatics are extremely intolerant of other people's opinions. And having heard a different point of view, they try to immediately save the "ruined" soul, choosing aggressive methods.
For religious fanatics, the projection mechanism works very powerfully. The inner demons that fill the fanatic are projected onto the world around them, find confirmation, objectified in any disagreeing person, in any dissenting person.
The higher the level of suppressed fear and neurotic anxiety, the more the connection with true feelings is broken, the more intense and cruel the war with an external enemy. According to Berdyaev, the religious fanatic believes in the devil more than in God. The fanatic commits violence out of fear, and therefore he is not strong, but weak. His faith is negative - after all, fanatical faith is a weakness of faith, unbelief.
In other people, the religious fanatic sees the dangerous evil that he actually carries in himself. By punishing and blaming others, the fanatic feels like a pure and blameless savior.
In the minds of a religious fanatic, such religious ideas as "the idea of salvation" and "the idea of destruction" acquire a completely different color. The “idea of death”, the fear of God, makes a person look at himself, encouraging him to “look for the beam in his own eye”. For a fanatic, however, this step is absolutely impossible to take, so he chooses in favor of the "idea of salvation", but this is not about realizing his mistakes and sins, not about repentance, which implies humility, but about saving the "world from enemies", about " the victory of justice”, about“the triumph over evil”, while the main judge is the egocentric view of the fanatic.
Religious fanatic dispute techniques:
-Proof of dogma through dogma
-Reference to "inspired Scripture" and the authority of God
-Transition to the discussion of the personality of the interlocutor
-Self-praise, attempts to convince of their exclusivity
-Blacking other religions and worldviews
-Verbal bullying
-Application of force.
Here one can recall Erich Fromm's idea of opposing "faith" and "strength", as well as Berdyaev's idea that fanaticism is a "negative" faith.
"Strength", which is associated with "power", says Fromm, is the most unstable of all human conquests and, acting on a person from the outside, deprives him of the opportunity through "faith" to build a connection with the world from within the personality itself.
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