Reply To: Dogma stunts moral agency

Dogma stunts moral agency and makes people regress backwards. Actually it keeps people stuck in a fear based mindset which impacts agency and human connection. Can influence and make people morally corrupted and or stunted in many many ways.
Too much focus on rigidity doesn’t allow for true human conscience to become the seat of a person’s life something that is neccisary for moral reasoning.
Dogma leads to corruption of moral choices. Cruelty…anger. Hostility. Control. Fear. When focused outwardly at others
When internalized the same thing happens just inversed.
It lacks the fruits of true loving kindness which is a reflection of Divinity and acceptance of self.
When we inherinitly reject the self, we also push away and must reject others.
When our standards are so high and we always fall short our inward standards become the yardstick on which we judge others.
Instead of being humans
We are rules
Instead of being compassionate
We are exacting.
This bleeds into behaviour. And causes terrible suffering for the soul.
We have two factions in our socioty right now
The wealthy that uses external validation and does the rules by route
And holds others accountable by their impossible stuck up materilism
And the very frum people who internalize their dogma and hold themselves to impossible standards but always fall short.
Thers also plenty of people in the middle
But these are the two extremes and the opposite polarities and manifestations of extreme thinking.
A new path might be neccisary cuz both sides are in the gutter. One is in a fight for his soul
The other has no soul left