The pitfalls of moral leadership (Hugo Schwyzer)

Addendum:


You might consider whether taking Christianity seriously doesn't engender mental illiness as almost a matter of course.   The principles of selflessness lead to an exaggerated emphasis on the self, because a person cannot be without an ego center and still retain balance.  Christian asceticism, similarly, tends to provoke lapses of extreme lasciviousness.   The oscillation between two states of being is the desperate response of a mind and body put at odds with itself.   Madness is highly likely.   But if one can manage to purge the principles of Christian metaphysics within oneself, one might not be so mad after all.