Create? Probably not, but I would suspect that people who live secretive lives of denial -frequently with large amounts repression and in many cases self-loathing often feel drawn to an ideology or a religious form that incarnates the self-image of the stark opposite of what deep inside they know they are.
What could be more opposite to a child molester in many peoples minds than someone who pontificates the strictest of moral codes and represents to many people the epitome of being an morally solid and upstanding person? Perhaps not in our minds, but no doubt in many peoples minds.
Like the priest or the minister many people would view being a conservative-Republican as representing moral certainty with an inflexible and unchangeable moral code.
I would guess it is a mechanism whereby a person finds a way to live with themselves by having a public persona that is the opposite of their inner secretive self. I would say it is often a form of denial. And repression is all the more dangerous and all the more apt to reveal itself in inappropriate and destructive ways in the such a person who lives a lie every day of their life with reality smacking them in the face every day of their life.
thoughts????
