Sunday

C Edward Baker "The Church's Neurosis & 20th Century Revelations"

...biblical fundamentalists. Their obscurantism and their inability to look historical facts in the face mark them out as very insecure people who need some outward token of infallible authority because they lack an inner authority adequate to control their deep confusions and fears. Psychotherapy constantly produces evidence that this narrowness of view-point and tendency to bigotry covers an unfortunate tug-of-war between instinctual drives and super-ego authority, issuing in obsessive symptoms.

C Edward Baker "The Church's Neurosis & 20th Century Revelations" (Rider & Co; London; 1975) p. 38