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When healing might mean losing moral restraint

My therapist says my religious guilt is unhealthy but that guilt has kept me from doing terrible things and I'm scared of who I'd become without it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Religious conscience can simultaneously oppress and protect, making therapeutic liberation feel dangerous to moral identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religion and gender — the contested terrain?”

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