Narcissistic difficulties contribute to fundamentalist attitude when dogma about eternal verities is used to buttress areas of personal fragility, either it would be intolerable to face the experience of the numinosum, even modified by ritual or symbol, or because dogma is used to defend against problems within the personality (…) For the fragile self, fixed dogmatic assertions help to maintain a degree of narcissistic equilibrium (see Kohut, 1972) by reducing uncertainty
