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Renaci · 36-40
Because it's a "sacred" mental illness and has had money and power for thousands of years to prevent itself from being treated. A doctor trying to treat a religion will be defrocked, sued and even killed by that religion's victims.
That's why scrupulosity is so under diagnosed. If it gets bad enough we just start calling them religious terrorists. Not even realizing they have a severe sickness with an actual name.
Another example is wanting to kill or suicide bomb. Yet dictators never get treated for that because they have power and wealth. Thus the disease insulates itself from treatment.
The wealth gives them power. And many priesthoods throughout history preyed upon and terrorized their followers into giving them wealth and positions of power.
Over the millennia the effect just snowballed until you now have things like tax exempt churches which allow them to accumulate more wealth and more power to enforce their mental parasite upon the most vulnerable populations: children, elderly and the sick. Which if you notice are the exact people they always go after. The bible itself even says to go after the children:
"Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."
I.E. brainwash the kids.
That's why scrupulosity is so under diagnosed. If it gets bad enough we just start calling them religious terrorists. Not even realizing they have a severe sickness with an actual name.
Another example is wanting to kill or suicide bomb. Yet dictators never get treated for that because they have power and wealth. Thus the disease insulates itself from treatment.
The wealth gives them power. And many priesthoods throughout history preyed upon and terrorized their followers into giving them wealth and positions of power.
Over the millennia the effect just snowballed until you now have things like tax exempt churches which allow them to accumulate more wealth and more power to enforce their mental parasite upon the most vulnerable populations: children, elderly and the sick. Which if you notice are the exact people they always go after. The bible itself even says to go after the children:
"Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."
I.E. brainwash the kids.