We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and that he blames himself for misfortunes for which … - Sigmund Freud

No one who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Here is yet another important consideration for
helping us to understand the individual in a group:
Moreover, by the mere fact that he forms part of
an organised group, a man descends several rungs
in the ladder of civilization. Isolated, he may be a
cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian — that is, a creature acting by instinct. He possesses
the spontaneity, the violence, the ferocity, and also
the enthusiasm and heroism of primitive beings.
He then dwells especially upon the lowering in
intellectual ability which an individual experiences when
he becomes merged in a group.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.