Most religious beliefs are healthy and sustaining for their members. But experts say there is a point at which devotion can tip into something else: isolation, delusion, a break from reality that often gets rationalized as “good faith.”
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“They think they are horrible people because that’s tied to the theology. You’ll find that in churches that place super focus on language like ‘I’m a sinner’ and ‘I’m a wretch.’”