The Different Modalities of How We Believe Through Denial

Catholic teaching on marriage is that if you don't really love her, then go through the ritual and sleep with her. You externalize belief into a certain symbolic ritual so that you no longer have to assume it fully subjectively. Another more interesting distance would have been not so much big noble beliefs, but obscene, unwritten convictions like racist, sexist convictions. The way they function is we, of course, publicly deny them, disavow them, even oppose them actively,. But from time to time, they nonetheless pop up in the censored form, in the form of denagation.