Scrupulosity as Moral-Perfection Wrong Attractor: Religious OCD, the Infinite Guilt Loop, and the Return to Good-Enough Conscience

Scrupulosity—religious or moral OCD characterized by excessive, intrusive concern about sin, blasphemy, or spiritual unworthiness—is here formally reconceptualized as a wrong attractor W_scrup in the landscape of moral functioning. The healthy ground state S^0 is defined as good-enough conscience: moral sensitivity that motivates prosocial behavior and appropriate guilt without generating self-sustaining doubt spirals.

W_scrup arises when moral anxiety detaches from actual transgression and becomes self-generating through the infinite guilt loop: each confession or reassurance provides momentary relief but increases long-term sensitivity, deepening the basin. Nine formal propositions characterize the loop isomorphism with OCD, infinite-stakes amplification, perfectionism as predisposing geometry, and return paths through ERP, ACT, and pastoral care integration.

Historical cases include Luther, Ignatius of Loyola, and Bunyan.