Why Christian Fundamentalists Try To Use Narcissistic Tactics To Control You

Discussing this video:

When Christians don’t understand Christianity

In agreement with this video's critiques of fundamentalist, Christian-religious apologists
(with one particular apologist being used as an example),

I've added some of my own thoughts to the discussion.

My initial thoughts about it:

I call it "Adaptive Theology". When fundamentalists instantly re-imagine some fundamental facet of their theology, to evade a damning point against it; but then pretend they didn't just do that. To this, someone replied (in agreement): "I just use the term: "Mental Gymnastics", only because it's non-specific to a particular belief system. It just seems like some sort of ego-defense mechanism" --- [My continuing thoughts on the matter] It's a valid expression. And it certainly applies. I'd say it's the inevitable result of someone's ego having "narrative dependence"; especially when the narrative itself runs counter to actual facts, logic, and basic human decency. I myself freed myself from that problem a decade ago, by realizing it's only my personal values, character, and choices which define me. The narratives I makes sense of the world with, are no longer used as the narratives which I allow to define me. As long as I'm honest and accountable, new discoveries can't harm my sense of who I am. They can only boost it, as I prove again and again that I'm ever-ready to accept and adapt to new data, and new insights. Religiously-rutted minds haven't figured that out yet. So they remain self-obligated in loyalty to irrational and abusive narratives fed to them (at first) by other people, and then (eventually) by their own enslaved and fragile egos. Making matters worse, they have personal ambitions which depend upon spreading their religion. In the process of trying to defend and promote it, to "make it all come right", they have to dance around the facts and rely heavily on logical fallacies, in order to plead their case. Flat Earthers are in the same boat. Same with Qanon conspiracy theorists. Although, (as Dr Joshua Bowen explains), it's a bit worse with religious fundamentalists. The reason for that is: They've been trained to think and behave as clinical Narcissist (Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Although, only some actually have the disorder (caused by the abuses of their religious parents). Whereas, the rest merely emulate it; in their individual attempts to be more like Daddy, and to be his bestest flying monkey ever. [although, they prefer the term "missionary"]

Actual facts, logic, and ethics don't even allow for what they're saying and doing in the name of their "God". So they play additional unethical and irrational games, to get around it. In theory, they could, instead, just STFU; 
or (better yet) GROW the fuck up.

But they feel obligated not to.

After all,
even RISKING "dangerous knowledge" that could lead to outgrowing their infancy (and thus: outgrowing their child-state dependencies on "Father") 
is what got Adam and Eve into trouble. 
 
Per their lore, 
Father wants all humans to be eternally infantile; so that HE can feel properly needed, praised, and subjugated to;
forever. 

Meanwhile, Christian bibles obligate their followers to "The Great Commission". They also have a competing mafias war to win, and a culture war to win.
They feel a need to socially dominante everyone they can; -as the righteous (fake-humble) authority everyone who is *lower in the pecking order should be yielding to. [*per how their authoritarian religion decides the social hierarchy] Their egos have been trained to need (and to feel entitled to) all of that. Like any clinical Narcissist, they don't have the luxury of behaving better. Their neurologically wired programming won't allow them to. So they keep dancing in obligatory loops of abusing other people's brains, and abusing their own.