Religion : The Obedience Machine: How Scripture, Clergy, Fear, and Sacred Authority Control the Human Mind
Language: English
Published by Dr Prabhat Das, 2026
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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This provocative study dissects how sacred authority manipulates the human psyche to equate submission with virtue. It challenges readers to reclaim their autonomy and weigh the true cost of unquestioning devotion.
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- Title
- Religion : The Obedience Machine: How Scripture, Clergy, Fear, and Sacred Authority Control the Human Mind
- Author
- Prabhat Das
- Publisher
- Dr Prabhat Das
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798951067340
- Item weight
- 420 grams
- Dimensions
- 235x157x14 mm
- Series
- Book 6 of 10: Religion: The Holy Poison
If a belief cannot survive your questions, should it control your life?
Most people never consciously choose to surrender their judgment. They learn, little by little, that obedience is goodness. That doubt is dangerous. That a sacred book, a religious leader, or an inherited rule must know better than they do.
Then comes the moment when something feels wrong-and speaking up could cost them everything.
Religion: The Obedience Machine explores what happens at that moment, how people reach it, and what it takes to reclaim the freedom to question.
In Book 6 of the Religion: The Holy Poison series, Dr. Prabhat Das confronts one of religion's most consequential powers: its ability to make surrendering independent judgment feel like a moral duty. Subtitled How Scripture, Clergy, Fear, and Sacred Authority Control the Human Mind, this book examines the human consequences of treating obedience as sacred.
Why do caring people defend harmful practices? Why do intelligent followers excuse an abusive leader? Why can leaving a belief feel like losing an entire world?
Through human stories, psychological research, historical cases, and public inquiries, Das examines how fear, love, loyalty, and the need to belong can bind people to commands they might otherwise reject. The danger does not always announce itself as cruelty. It may arrive as a lesson, a promise of salvation, an appeal to tradition, or a demand to protect the community.
This book will help you:
- Recognize how obedience takes root. Understand how childhood teaching, repetition, and reward can make questioning feel forbidden before a belief has ever been examined.
- See the pressure behind apparent agreement. Discover why everyone else's certainty can make your own doubts feel like a personal failure.
- Question authority without surrendering compassion. Examine why a sacred title does not remove the need for evidence, accountability, and ordinary safeguards.
- Understand the fear that follows people home. Explore how divine surveillance, guilt, and punishment can shape even private thoughts.
- Recognize when loyalty stops protecting people. Follow the ways institutions can defend their reputations while those harmed struggle to be heard.
- Understand the cost of saying no. See why challenging a custom or leaving a faith can threaten family ties, identity, security, and belonging.
From faith healing and medical neglect to caste, harmful customs, and religious violence, the book asks readers to look beyond the sincerity of a belief to its consequences for living people.
Das also recognizes the religious reformers who have challenged injustice from within their traditions. Believers differ, and religion is not the sole cause of human cruelty. The central question remains: Should anything called sacred be exempt from moral scrutiny?
Whether you are questioning your upbringing, concerned about someone under religious pressure, or seeking to understand the power of unquestioned authority, this book gives you language for difficult experiences.
You do not have to abandon your compassion to question a command. You do not have to silence your conscience to belong.
Read Religion: The Obedience Machine. Before you give any authority your obedience, give yourself permission to ask whether it deserves it.
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