The problem with religious clothing is that it is not intended for the stated purpose. Rather the reason is group identification. And that comes under two of the seven categories of Prushim that are the destroyers of the world. [as brought in the Gemara and also in the book by Nisim Gaon Maasei Hagedolim Deeds of the Great in paragraph 740].[See the verse:מה השם אליך שואל ממך והצנע לכת אם אלוקיך What does the Lord your God ask from you ---and to walk humbly with the Lord your God. That is one must not advertise how religious he or she is. The religious turn this into its opposite to mean that one must advertise one's religious clothing to show that they are religious.
והצנע means to hide. The religious advertise their religiosity showing that they could not care less about the Torah but rather the money and power they can make by pretending to seem as if they care.`
Fear of God and keeping his commandments is explained in the books of Musar. But what makes this difficult is the vast majority of the religious world that are into it for money and power and thus the naïve and plain that do not know better fall into the trap of the Torah of the Dark Side of the religious world that claim to be keeping Torah .
