127 Trauma, Fragmentation, and the Soothing Certainty of Dogmatism
The Place We Find Ourselves
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The Fragmentation of the Mind Drives Dogmatism
People with a history of trauma will gravitate toward a theology that offers certainty because it soothes the dysregulation and fragmentation and chaos that they feel inside./nThis does not mean that the theology is wrong, but that some part of the person's embrace of it is due to the fact that it calms their insides rather than being dispassionately evaluated./nFragmentation in the brain is soothed by certainty, and so people become dogmatic about their beliefs.
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