The true believer
When does our yearning for transcendence and love alienate us from others?
What about the perspective of the true believer who searches for redemption in a feeling of love and forgiveness from his lord above, received through contemplation and conformity to an example often provided by someone else here on earth?
By doing so, there’s no need to address the needs of the other nor any pathway of coming to terms; thus it ensures alienation of the other. This is the shadow side of transcendent consolation.
By finding dignity and healing solely in the vertical relationship with God, the horizontal relationships can remain forever broken. The divine love becomes a kind of bypass that makes human reconciliation unnecessary, even undesirable.
The wound gets spiritualized rather than healed in the human realm where it was inflicted.
True dignity might require both the vertical connection that prevents us from being destroyed by humiliation and the horizontal work of reconciliation that transforms the conditions that created it.