2 Kings 18 New International Version Hezekiah King of Judah 18 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2
You're Simpping for a Fem that doesn't give 2 shits about you and Never will. No wonder you're a former, used to be pastor ?? LoL Good Riddance simp boy
I grew up in AOG. After 38 years in fundamentalists Christianity my mind and emotions were destroyed. My first panic attack happened at the age of 12 because we were forced to watch the Thief In The Night and Left Behind movies. The teaching of the rapture and blaspheming the “Holy Spirit” only further damaged me. Now at the age of 48 I can’t talk about god or Christianity. I can’t be around Christians for long. I have been an atheist for 10 years and I’m still damaged. I was diagnosed with religious trauma syndrome when I was 40. I have a deep seated hatred for Christianity and the Bible.
Joined an Aog in ireland in 1988 was totally brainwashed and ended up with bipolar,today I'm an outspoken critic on fundamentalist theology, I send you best wishes and light from a fellow traveller on the journey of freedom ,sending you blessing from co dublin in ireland 🇮🇪
I love the statement “I don’t know 💩 about f*.” I think that sums up everyone’s situation. I attempt to fill the void with art, various kinds: visual art, fiction, music.
@pdrivest57 ALL conspiracy beliefs are the same Are you aware of flat earth believers? No different than religion. The same sorts of delusions are there. Name ANY conspiratorial belief. So many of the same bits of crap.
Speaking of challenging beliefs : I had a friend who was was very religious, and I would sometimes challenge him and suggest that something he believed seemed not to make sense. His response was to say "I don't have an answer to your criticism/concern, but I have faith that someday I will." His faith was bulletproof. And this was from a person with enough logical ability to get a PhD in math, so logic wasn't the issue. It bothers me somewhat that there was this chasm in our ability to communicate.
Look at Andrew Knight and John Lennox; one is a physics lecturer at Harvard and one is a maths lecturer at Oxford university. I'm sure they're both great at their jobs, but listen to them talking about their belief systems, and they are complete idiots! One experiment reported in New Scientist (sadly, I've lost the issue, and would have to sign up to New Scientist in order to, possibly, find the article), detailed interesting results with religious people in fMRI scanners, which will, hopefully, shed some light on the subject. These people were told that the next person they would hear was high up in their belief system. What happened was, the "suspicion circuits"* of the brain literally switched off. It's the same part of the brain that switches off when we're asleep, so that we don't (usually) question the insane situations we find ourselves in, in dreams. My mother was a christian, and had a high IQ (she could easily have joined Mensa, but didn't like the snobby attitude of some of its members), so it bewildered me, as a child, how she could fall for the blatant bullshit of the bible. Obviously this was long before the study was carried out, and also long before I discovered just how awfully powerful, insidious and dangerous brainwashing is. I've talked to people who have said, "you can't call me stupid, I'm a lawyer/doctor/business person, etc", but I can call them stupid, because, when it comes to their belief system, it doesn't matter if they're a skillful surgeon, a successful business person, a sharp lawyer, etc, I might as well be arguing with a backward child. There is clearly NO proper critical thinking being applied, even though they are convinced that there is. *New Scientist's term, not mine.
@MattieGorman-w6f "I think the same about a physicist arguing about the big bang being both real" No, you don't. You might _believe_ that you should feel the same, but that's clearly due to ignorance on your part. The Big Bang Theory has observable evidence for it (the red shift of most galaxies, the cosmic Microwave Background Radiation), and what laws do you mistakenly believe it to be defying?
Religion circumvents a fear of death. Taking it from them is that kind of a level of threat to them. We don’t feel the level of fear that most cannot manage. They don’t care about truth. They care about fear.
I have a family member who grew up in religion. She still deeply religious. In recent months, she has been making some bizarre decisions. She quit her job and went back home to live with her mom, she dedicates lots of her time praying, reading scriptures, organizing things around church. It's annoying her parents who are also deeply religious. When asked about her plans, she says she is awaiting a sign from God. I'm the only atheist in the family. I advised her parents to seek secular help. They refuse. They only want her to speak to pastors or religious people. I'm worried she is disillusionned . She is 32 and has a master's degree. She is very bright. But her sense of reality is non existent. She had a car accident. I said thankfully her car had airbags. She replied violently that it was God who saved her life and got angry at me for not thanking god. Anything that happens to her, she says it's God's will. Her self esteem is very low. I'm seriously worried about her ... As there is a history of self harm in my family.
@@henrim9348 I had learned Biblical Hebrew and set about wanting to walk the road to Emmaus, to prove Jesus was the promised messiah. I worked through Matthew and found a bunch of dead ends, things taken out of context, or horribly mistranslated. I then dug into what the OT said about the messiah, realized I had to redefine salvation and messiah at their root. The more I tried to prove Jesus, the more I was able to prove he wasn’t the messiah. Started digging into textual criticism and realized Daniel was written by Judah Maccabees to bring meaning to the then known world, making Antiochus IV the messiah. Spent months and months studying the Dead Sea sect and the Jesus movement and kind of realized they have been handing down apocalyptic ideas that looked for messiah’s vengeance. Studied tons of 1st century primary texts and realized that Jesus cannot be historically proven, and though he may have existed, there is no way to know if his words are accurate or if the gospels accurate portray him. In deconstruction I realized the conscience, the Holy Spirit, and the intuition are all the same. Praying in tongues is cathartic and opens pathways, but plenty of other heathen/pagan cultures do it too. The Santorini volcano perfectly explains the ten plagues before the Exodus or expulsion of the Hyksos. Moses having spent time in Midian knew how to release geysers from under rocks, the shapira manuscript and the book of Jeremiah proving that Moses only wrote about 2/3 of Deuteronomy, and the rest of Torah was added to, tracing all the genesis stories back to older myths, the Library of Alexandria and Ptolemy (the 3rd?)having it filled with literature, including the first full copy of Torah in Greek. The pagan origins of the Hebrew faith and their origin in Crete. So so so many things that slowly chipped away at my foundation. It was shattering and I spent months in emotional turmoil, but I am rebuilding and doing much better now. The world is big and open and free, and I am not held captive by Pentecostal hyper spiritualism. Honestly I credit deconstruction with saving my life. I didn’t think I would ever overcome the enemy. How I am trauma informed, getting therapy, and no longer believe in duality.
I guess you can do nothing for her. I'm the only atheist in my family of origin as well. I have four brothers. All of them have a university degree, one of my brother is a phd. Still they are blindfolded. As long as they have an explanation for everything it just makes sense for them. Most of my time i felt desperate and hopeless. Nowadays I stay away from them as much as I can and I'm in awe watching the mental gymnastics they are able to do. Being able to witness this is being able to see how much power your mind has. Only thing you can do is to offer help in case they wanna deconstruct.
@@henrim9348 for some reason my comment didn’t post. For me, it started when I started questioning the New Testament history and when they were written, which prompted me to look into the depths of what makes a messiah and how Jesus qualified to be IT. 8 months of intense study led me to believe he did not qualify as the Jewish messiah, and the rest of my deconstruction snowballed from there.
Very great! At 71 and after 25 years of critical thinking after being raised in Christianity, know now your comments are true. Mother used religion as a crutch and I understand that, and she meant well, but it didn’t help. Other sibling still in that “cult” which is sad.
Yeah but what happens when they force those delusions onto their children? Because that’s what happened to me and it ruined my childhood and well into my adult life? When does showing empathy to those need to stop because of the damage it’s causing to others??
i think we need a concerted effort to get politicians to understand that bringing up children in any religious/cult belief system is completely unacceptable. It is a form of ab*se and needs to be recognised as such and banned. This won't happen in the US for a long time, but hopefully, if it happens in another country, possibly in Europe, then that could start the ball rolling, and it will eventually snowball.
Excellent point. I had (am still having 😬) this same experience. My family was destroyed by the Worldwide Church of God. LOTS of delusional thinking in that group and it’s splinters. So sad
Thank you ❤ my close friend has been in religious delusion since I met her but lately it shifted gears and ramped up. She has been very unkind towards me so I have cut her out. I cannot have a conversation with her because disagreeing with her causes her to lash out, double down, and attack me. I have been a listening ear for her showing support for over 6 years now and sometimes, you can’t just be supportive for someone who is in delusion. It’s unfortunate because I was the only person doing that for her. Now she is only surrounded by others within her belief system who truly believe that she is a prophet… but I’m done. I’m glad to know that directly challenging her is not helpful though, I don’t want to do anything that could make it worse. I’m just going to disengage indefinitely
This is important stuff. I have a dear friend who's gone through this for many years. Every once in a while he surfaces out of it and he's in one of those states right now so that we can talk just normally. I used to challenge him but that just made things worse so everything that you're saying makes good sense to me. Unfortunately there is a pipeline that draws people into these forms of delusions and it's kind of evil.
I just found your channel. I was a minister in the evangelical Christian church for over 30 years. I've been an atheist for the last 11 years now. I'm so glad someone else categorizes some religious beliefs as delusional. So many atheist are afraid to label it as a delusion. As delusion is a mental disorder. I argue against that all the time. Religious beliefs are more than not delusional.
When one group persecutes another group that causes an us vs them attitude begins. Separation and hate. Hate and war. Murder and death. Love each other is what religion is all about. No hate. All love and we have peace.
Religion being all about love is a personal wish of what it should be. It definitely is not rooted in any kind of reality. Religion is not truth, so there is no TRUE religious essence. Religion is an ignorance that justifies any horror sent from "god".
I used to believe that the people who could help me the best were Christian enthusiasts! I was so fucking wrong!!! I was taught this and it honestly pissed me off for the longest time!
A really good talk. What is needed now is a way to show people that the answers are in science and not the supernatural. Yes we are just on the beginning of this journey, but we must be much less supportive of religion institutions which through an altruistic facade seem to be more about amassing wealth. I don’t say that the altruism is entirely negative, but to constantly bombard vulnerable people with religious nonsense is to me counterproductive.
Greetings from Croatia ( Eastern Europe). l can't tell you how helpful you, Mindshift and other youtube channels are for every christian who is strugling with doubts and disbelive. l was born and raised as a Roman Catholic, and l was always so confused about how many saints the Catholic Church has. And how much we worship the virgin Mary even thought it is not in accordance with the Bible. My closest friends and family are good Christians because they don't read the Bible. They prefer to listen to what the priest says at mass and thus have a sense of comfort and safety. I understand that, because l was catholic for 47 years. And l was a true belliver. But my path of deconstruction is quick and painless because my family is very liberal and they respect my decision. Besides my mom, she is 76 years and it would be too much of a shock and fear for her.
Remember, all that "religion" disappears when survival of the fittest is at play. In your countries situation that's WWII and the Yugo civil war. It obviously had no bearing on events when the sh@t hit the fan. So, therefore, it is a nothing burger and can't override animalistic and survival mechanisms. Its simply a do-gooder overlay that only works when convenient. A fraud in other words.
@@brankobelfranin8815 It's just a label... (I'm from Poland. I don't know if this is Eastern, Central, Western... And what it possibly could even mean)
I remember where I worked there would be religious pamphlets left in the restrooms for people to read. On was titled how do we know the Bible is the word of god. Couldn’t stop laughing that every verification of the Bible in the pamphlet text referred to passages in the Bible. 😅
Hey Britt. I am glad I found you. This is a great work you are doing here. One have to have a total open mind to grasp your concept. I am an open minded but still subscribe to some sort of infinite power. Keep up the good work.
I’m a survivor of Religious Trauma (as a cult survivor) . Ended going to seminary and earned an MTS just to try to reset . Pretty much an Agnostic/Non-Theist now. I have/ had at least 5 of those you listed. I literally laugh at myself. Especially when I tell someone about it. Fkn Hilarious now. Man that was a TRIP. I’m a physician. Do You Believe That SHIT??!! Will always think of myself as a survivor. I’ll always be at risk for that Sh*t. Looking back , I should kick my Own Ass for falling for that sh*t. (Then again I did, TRUST) It’s like you can never be an Ex-Alcoholic. Human beings need an origin story I guess. I totally hear what you’re saying cause that sh*t was me🫤
When you go in to the psychotic state? You must go all in, completely. That's is the thing with Christianity. You must go all in. Then you can experience fantastic things in your mind. The release, the joy. Wisdom, and so on. You understand your inner thoughts, and why Things happened in your life. Am glad you are out from religion. It's a real trip.
You stated my exact thoughts as I look back at myself...as a Baptist minister! How the fuck did I go all in on that shit?! Who was that guy? What was he suffering from?! Peter Pan syndrome? I blow my own mind that I truly deeply believed that shit.
Yes, I have brought the Joesph Smith story of writing the Book of Mormon in a short period of time as the Mormons like to claim. I once worked in a highly supervised maximum security unit of a correctional facility. we had more than a few men there who wrote amazing scriptures. Hundreds of pages of script that you would not be able to differentiate between biblical and non biblical cannon. I was very amazed at these men’s abilities. One rewrote the entire Bible and had it all memorized with various people’s and places that if you didn’t know the difference, you wouldn’t be able to tell it was fabricated.
Believing in an unprovable all powerful invisible Sky fairy that lives in a mythical place called heaven who will send you to an equally mythical place called hell if you don't OBEY OBEY OBEY is the only symptom of delusion I need to see.
Love your position on how to handle religious fundamentalists. Fear element is huge in religion. 2023 Paul MacKenzie from Kenya, AFRICA convinced hundreds to starve themselves to salvation. What kind of devotion would lead someone to do this? I sure don't know, but the fear religions created is real. Believe or ELSE. 38 years free!
Yeah, I've been through this, it's scary and painful. I like what you said about how invalidating a person's delusions doesn't help them. Same with Religious OCD. I used to see therapists who were completely unspiritual. When I tried to talk to them about my spiritual concerns, and even scrupulosity, I was stonewalled. Yes, this only drives a person deeper in, to cling even further to their obsessions. Thankfully, years later, I did find a doctor who shared my faith and was able to help me sort it out. She validated what I was experiencing, and mirrored reality back to me.
Invalidating a person's delusion would help an honest seeker. Not one who wants to stay deluded and seeks to only entertain those who share their delusion. Sometimes we just have to grow up and it's hard but necessary to mental health.
Amazing video. I appreciate your point that these subconscious processes unfold in all of us, and that conditions like religious psychosis and religious delusion can happen to all of us, even if some delusional frameworks don’t easily fit into traditional paradigms. People fall into this stuff because they want to feel accepted and connected, creating inner worlds to gain control, and pulling them out of that requires empathy, while pushing back too much isn’t helpful since these delusions are so entrenched and personal. When you just say they’re completely wrong and everything they’re saying is delusional, it can make them feel like that which is so personal and deeply connected to their being isn’t real or valid, which is not only emotionally painful but slightly wrong in the sense that their ideas are at the least grounded in their emotional and social needs as a human. My question is, if too much pushback makes things worse, should we be calling them delusions? If not, what’s a better term?
I had many of these as a child/tweenager. I was raised in a lapsed Catholic family and went to a liberal Church of England school so i wasnt around any fundamentalism. But i had a lot of trauma and was also undiagnosed dyspraxic and autistic. I fixated on God because the school church was my safe place. What you said here about delusions giving you an identity in times of crisis made a lot of sense to me...i was convinced God had chosen me for something special and i would grow up to be a saint of some kind. For a bullied, abused kid, it was incredibly comforting. Unfortunately i ended up in my teenage years with religious OCD, convinced the devil was after me. Im now what i would call a naturalistic neopagan, but unfortunately 'woo' is on the rise in the neopagan community too and its getting harder and harder for me to engage.
Same. I’m also dealing with this problem, and I was told that my autistic special interests are “the devil tempting me”, “idolatry,” “demons”, etc. when I’m just not buying that. I honestly feel so much enlightenment here and I’ve found better gods and goddesses than the Bible god.
Thank you for this video, it was extremely insightful and helpful. I have a dear friend from high school (1960s) who reconnected with me about a year ago. An intelligent woman and once brilliant chemist with a successful career and two children (now grown), she has been lost in religious psychosis for over a decade. Your diagnosis is spot on in every particular. She is completely ostracized by her family and most friends and lives a very isolated life. It is part of a probably genetic predisposition to depression and psychological problems, PTSD from childhood events involving her father's early death and her mother's psychological issues, and severe health issues. I do not challenge her beliefs or descriptions of supernatural encounters, merely stating that I cannon judge them because they were not my experiences. I remain supportive and positive by email mostly as I live in another country. I did see her several times earlier this year and found her very pleasant if sometimes difficult to understand. Suggestions of small changes to her life have had no result. At this point in her life (75 years) I am not sure that anything will shake her immersion in religious psychosis and perhaps it is better not to try. Suggestions?
We should work 9 to 5, have two weeks of vacation for 30 years, with three kids graduating from prestigious colleges, and call this the best of all possibilities.
A physicalist? Haha I guess that's the same as a realist? Someone who stays with universally verifiable realities and doesn't see any true wisdom coming from the imagined alternatives? Y'all god folks use words to protect delusions in a "respectable: way but out here in reality we're on to you.
Your spot on describing the mind of spiritual religious beliefs of some people,they can't or will not use reasoning or reality.Some people need a master. When i embraced atheism many,many,years ago i feel more liberating, empathy, and open minded and better off for it.
There are so many "prophets" as you had described all over UA-cam maam - fixated on end times and claiming special revelation on many things - sadly, mostly Americans.. they're all over UA-cam and looking at their followers and comments, it is quite unnerving..
Excellent! A birth to age 21 bible-reading, church-going christian, and from age 30-48 a catholic, now, at 84 - now that the poison from the scorpion bite has worn off, I feel wonderfully free from all those beliefs. I wonder, though, what’s still lurking in the unconscious!? 🤣 Laughter is my “religion” now! Thank you for the way you deliver your ideas. I’m not sure you’re right about it all coming from the brain, but I laughed when you said you don’t know shit about fuck! 😂🤣😆❤
Speaking as a 'professional religious person' I have never hesitated to call anyone on any form of religious delusion. I coinsider it my first responsibility. The main reason people with religious delusion seek out clergy is for validation of theier delusion. You absolutely cannot validate their delusion. The won't like hearing that and will probably re-frame you as 'part of the problem,' but this is your responsibility, especially as a priest or pastor. Don't even humour someone with religious delusion.
I work with people who have some, not all, of these and they see it as putting forth the gospel. Thank you for the info on the Three Christs and not confronting the believer, I felt that would not necessarily cause them to slap their foreheads and exclaim, My, how could I have been so deluded. Now I understand it rocks them back into the Faith more solidly.
I am at a place in my life where I move back and forth with the idea of God. I'm experiencing life problems and I am trying to not attach a story for my suffering. I find it challenging not to ask for strength from God, though I'm battling with the existence of God. I realize that this has been my safety net, and without I find it hard to cope.
I was once in this position and it sucks. Now, I know, If I just give you the answer “𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭“ you'll just continue stressing...“how do you know for sure?“ How I moved forward?...it's a long story, but in short, I followed the “god-crumbs”, which led to the Sumerians. You see, questions like; what are we? where are we from? What inhabited the earth before us? What happens when we die?, etc, are all recurring questions throughout every generation. So the Sumerians theorized “what if there’re aliens (Anunnaki gods) and what if we were created by these aliens?”….but they didn’t stop there. They created their own characters (Enlil, Enki, etc) which led to many famous stories (creation myth story, Ziusudra and the flood story, etc), which were all copied and remixed by every later civilizations. Tho I’ve wasted quality time on this, one thing I’ve learned is that everyone has to embark on their own journey to find peace tho we’re all going to end up with the same answer; it’s the only way that you’ll finally have some peace of mind…anyways, hope I was helpful, good luck🥲
LOL, loving your video. It's mostly excellent. There's just the rare exception when you have kickass 3 letter agency remote viewers involved and they have high levels of security clearance and they can cross check psychic information with real world events and it all adds up to courtroom drama. It's rare but it happens. You are good at what you do.
Great to bring this to us. I would like a bit more explanation of what is happening, saying hearing the voice of God is one thing but explaining why that is an issue would help. If God is within that voice can be higher self, moments of peace in meditation.
Thank God that we are "slowly" moving out of the "Age of ♓ Pisces(faith, belief, fear, illusion, delusion, ignorance) and moving into the "Age of ♒ Aquarius"(science, technology, knowledge, liberation from 😨 fear based "beliefs"😊🎉✌️ 💜.
Important video! It is also actual, because we have the war ”against satanic west” by Putin. Perhaps we have territorial thinking in our collective evolution. I appreciate the clearness of your text and speak. I hope that this video helps many people, who suffers irrational beliefs and also those, who has these problems in family. Thank you for your splendid work!
I was sure I would bong out on at least 1 out of 10, but nope I got none of them. I have had a few, to some degree in the past though, when I was in a cult, but never to the extent that I witnessed in some of my peers. Interesting stuff!
Being a Christian can be confusing too. Read Hearers of the Word or Theological Aesthetics which show how you can confuse between yourself, your neighbor, the Crucified, and God in your emotions and your thinking.
The problem with introducing professional help is that their delusions will make them only seek the "professionals" who also hold the same delusions. They are taught not to trust secular therapy... "it's of the devil."
I saw you on Brandon’s channel! Great video, I really think my mother is living with a mental illness and religion is like the fuel to her fire. Everything you said reminds me of her behavior. The constant writing, thinking she’s seeing patterns in numbers (stares at stock market numbers for hours everyday), thinking god is giving her special knowledge, isolation, apocalyptic obsessions, etc. I no longer talk to her because it became incredibly toxic. You kinda look and sound like Kourtney kardashian (that was a random thought😂)
The Master and Margarita is the greatest work I've ever read in expressing the other side and the Atheist delusion and how it tore apart Russia after the revolution, creating a hell on earth.
Wonderful that she broke free from the most delusional religion and all the crazed beliefs. There is so much that one can occupy one’s interest, instead of going over a cliff into religious pathology.
Wow that was like drinking ambrosia from a fire hose! It is rare here on UA-cam to encounter such a tight well argued essay. I'm so glad I stayed with you to the end where you described how we are all just being humans grappling with human reality. New subscriber here. You deserve to be boosted into the ranks of Matt Delahunty, Sam Harris and their eloquent and even handed colleagues.
_"Number one sign of religious delusion is beleiving in a god."_ But they believe in a god who used one of his sons as a human sacrifice to himself. LOL
I read Joseph Campbell's "The hero with a thousand faces" many many years ago anth although he focused more on mythology, it came very close the what you are explaining here. Man was not created by god, man created gods.
My new focus in theology is addressig religious trauma. There are more books out there than you would think as people are getting the courage to reveal the trauma that they experienced or the mental health crisis that they exprienced at the hands of their chuch leaders or the doctine itself. Religion adds another layer to non-religious trauma because there is no accountability if you can use the Bible or a "God spoke to me..." phrases. I am a victim of it and am healing through talking about it and helping others. Some denominations are against all forms of Mental Health. Ouch! I am not welcome at many churches.
Fellow Atheist UA-camr here, former Evangelical Pastor for 30 years. I love ❤ your content! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your service. Please keep going to church without superstition. Build a community of encouragement
2 Kings 18
New International Version
Hezekiah King of Judah
18 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2
Jeez, you fell away
Hey 👋🏻 Timmy. Love your content on your channel. Highly recommended 👍🏼
You're Simpping for a Fem that doesn't give 2 shits about you and Never will.
No wonder you're a former, used to be pastor ?? LoL
Good Riddance simp boy
The truth will set you free. life without religion is real living
This is exactly how i feel! It is like reaching enlightment where you start seeing life for what it really is.
Thank you for mentioning this ❤
I grew up in AOG. After 38 years in fundamentalists Christianity my mind and emotions were destroyed. My first panic attack happened at the age of 12 because we were forced to watch the Thief In The Night and Left Behind movies. The teaching of the rapture and blaspheming the “Holy Spirit” only further damaged me. Now at the age of 48 I can’t talk about god or Christianity. I can’t be around Christians for long. I have been an atheist for 10 years and I’m still damaged. I was diagnosed with religious trauma syndrome when I was 40. I have a deep seated hatred for Christianity and the Bible.
Excommunicated from AOG age 17 on entirely false charges. 60 now and still occasionally feel angry. But… less so now…
Joined an Aog in ireland in 1988 was totally brainwashed and ended up with bipolar,today I'm an outspoken critic on fundamentalist theology, I send you best wishes and light from a fellow traveller on the journey of freedom ,sending you blessing from co dublin in ireland 🇮🇪
@@AlanObrien-if4iesending blessings??
How is that possible?
Some kind of energetic transmission?
A bank account transference?
How?
@RAFITAESTRADITA it's an irish expression of good will ,stop being so analytical it's just a word of compassion
@AlanObrien-if4ie Gotcha!!
I enjoy so much causing controversy. It's like a hobby for me.
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I love this, I’m so glad someone’s making this known, there are way too many people suffering from this influencing others
Praying for The revelation of JESUS for you
Your one of the delusional lmao @@odisroth7370
Sooooo good, finally someone connecting the dots!! Especially psychological explanations! Thank you!
I love the statement “I don’t know 💩 about f*.” I think that sums up everyone’s situation. I attempt to fill the void with art, various kinds: visual art, fiction, music.
Thanks!, I'm so glad I came across this video. Fascinated by the psychology of religion.
@pdrivest57
ALL conspiracy beliefs are the same
Are you aware of flat earth believers?
No different than religion. The same sorts of delusions are there.
Name ANY conspiratorial belief. So many of the same bits of crap.
Speaking of challenging beliefs : I had a friend who was was very religious, and I would sometimes challenge him and suggest that something he believed seemed not to make sense. His response was to say "I don't have an answer to your criticism/concern, but I have faith that someday I will." His faith was bulletproof. And this was from a person with enough logical ability to get a PhD in math, so logic wasn't the issue. It bothers me somewhat that there was this chasm in our ability to communicate.
Your faith is bulletproof.
Human psychology is complicated.
Look at Andrew Knight and John Lennox; one is a physics lecturer at Harvard and one is a maths lecturer at Oxford university. I'm sure they're both great at their jobs, but listen to them talking about their belief systems, and they are complete idiots!
One experiment reported in New Scientist (sadly, I've lost the issue, and would have to sign up to New Scientist in order to, possibly, find the article), detailed interesting results with religious people in fMRI scanners, which will, hopefully, shed some light on the subject.
These people were told that the next person they would hear was high up in their belief system. What happened was, the "suspicion circuits"* of the brain literally switched off. It's the same part of the brain that switches off when we're asleep, so that we don't (usually) question the insane situations we find ourselves in, in dreams.
My mother was a christian, and had a high IQ (she could easily have joined Mensa, but didn't like the snobby attitude of some of its members), so it bewildered me, as a child, how she could fall for the blatant bullshit of the bible. Obviously this was long before the study was carried out, and also long before I discovered just how awfully powerful, insidious and dangerous brainwashing is.
I've talked to people who have said, "you can't call me stupid, I'm a lawyer/doctor/business person, etc", but I can call them stupid, because, when it comes to their belief system, it doesn't matter if they're a skillful surgeon, a successful business person, a sharp lawyer, etc, I might as well be arguing with a backward child. There is clearly NO proper critical thinking being applied, even though they are convinced that there is.
*New Scientist's term, not mine.
@MattieGorman-w6f "I think the same about a physicist arguing about the big bang being both real"
No, you don't. You might _believe_ that you should feel the same, but that's clearly due to ignorance on your part.
The Big Bang Theory has observable evidence for it (the red shift of most galaxies, the cosmic Microwave Background Radiation), and what laws do you mistakenly believe it to be defying?
Religion circumvents a fear of death. Taking it from them is that kind of a level of threat to them. We don’t feel the level of fear that most cannot manage.
They don’t care about truth. They care about fear.
Underated channel, found this channel two days ago. Keep it up Britt, you are helping a lot of people, your impact is bigger than you think. 🏆
I have a family member who grew up in religion. She still deeply religious. In recent months, she has been making some bizarre decisions. She quit her job and went back home to live with her mom, she dedicates lots of her time praying, reading scriptures, organizing things around church. It's annoying her parents who are also deeply religious. When asked about her plans, she says she is awaiting a sign from God.
I'm the only atheist in the family. I advised her parents to seek secular help. They refuse. They only want her to speak to pastors or religious people. I'm worried she is disillusionned . She is 32 and has a master's degree. She is very bright. But her sense of reality is non existent. She had a car accident. I said thankfully her car had airbags. She replied violently that it was God who saved her life and got angry at me for not thanking god. Anything that happens to her, she says it's God's will. Her self esteem is very low.
I'm seriously worried about her ... As there is a history of self harm in my family.
I was her just a year ago.
@savannarae6386 Very interesting. Thanks for your answer.
I'm curious how you turned things around for yourself.
@@henrim9348 I had learned Biblical Hebrew and set about wanting to walk the road to Emmaus, to prove Jesus was the promised messiah. I worked through Matthew and found a bunch of dead ends, things taken out of context, or horribly mistranslated. I then dug into what the OT said about the messiah, realized I had to redefine salvation and messiah at their root. The more I tried to prove Jesus, the more I was able to prove he wasn’t the messiah. Started digging into textual criticism and realized Daniel was written by Judah Maccabees to bring meaning to the then known world, making Antiochus IV the messiah. Spent months and months studying the Dead Sea sect and the Jesus movement and kind of realized they have been handing down apocalyptic ideas that looked for messiah’s vengeance. Studied tons of 1st century primary texts and realized that Jesus cannot be historically proven, and though he may have existed, there is no way to know if his words are accurate or if the gospels accurate portray him.
In deconstruction I realized the conscience, the Holy Spirit, and the intuition are all the same. Praying in tongues is cathartic and opens pathways, but plenty of other heathen/pagan cultures do it too.
The Santorini volcano perfectly explains the ten plagues before the Exodus or expulsion of the Hyksos. Moses having spent time in Midian knew how to release geysers from under rocks, the shapira manuscript and the book of Jeremiah proving that Moses only wrote about 2/3 of Deuteronomy, and the rest of Torah was added to, tracing all the genesis stories back to older myths, the Library of Alexandria and Ptolemy (the 3rd?)having it filled with literature, including the first full copy of Torah in Greek. The pagan origins of the Hebrew faith and their origin in Crete. So so so many things that slowly chipped away at my foundation. It was shattering and I spent months in emotional turmoil, but I am rebuilding and doing much better now. The world is big and open and free, and I am not held captive by Pentecostal hyper spiritualism. Honestly I credit deconstruction with saving my life. I didn’t think I would ever overcome the enemy. How I am trauma informed, getting therapy, and no longer believe in duality.
I guess you can do nothing for her. I'm the only atheist in my family of origin as well. I have four brothers. All of them have a university degree, one of my brother is a phd. Still they are blindfolded. As long as they have an explanation for everything it just makes sense for them. Most of my time i felt desperate and hopeless. Nowadays I stay away from them as much as I can and I'm in awe watching the mental gymnastics they are able to do. Being able to witness this is being able to see how much power your mind has. Only thing you can do is to offer help in case they wanna deconstruct.
@@henrim9348 for some reason my comment didn’t post.
For me, it started when I started questioning the New Testament history and when they were written, which prompted me to look into the depths of what makes a messiah and how Jesus qualified to be IT. 8 months of intense study led me to believe he did not qualify as the Jewish messiah, and the rest of my deconstruction snowballed from there.
Very great! At 71 and after 25 years of critical thinking after being raised in Christianity, know now your comments are true. Mother used religion as a crutch and I understand that, and she meant well, but it didn’t help. Other sibling still in that “cult” which is sad.
This is my new favorite channel thank you for bringing some sense into society ❤
Yeah but what happens when they force those delusions onto their children? Because that’s what happened to me and it ruined my childhood and well into my adult life? When does showing empathy to those need to stop because of the damage it’s causing to others??
This hits hard! Just remember, it's better to have real empathy than it is to have false empathy! That's always helped me.
i think we need a concerted effort to get politicians to understand that bringing up children in any religious/cult belief system is completely unacceptable.
It is a form of ab*se and needs to be recognised as such and banned.
This won't happen in the US for a long time, but hopefully, if it happens in another country, possibly in Europe, then that could start the ball rolling, and it will eventually snowball.
Excellent point. I had (am still having 😬) this same experience. My family was destroyed by the Worldwide Church of God. LOTS of delusional thinking in that group and it’s splinters. So sad
Thank you ❤ my close friend has been in religious delusion since I met her but lately it shifted gears and ramped up. She has been very unkind towards me so I have cut her out. I cannot have a conversation with her because disagreeing with her causes her to lash out, double down, and attack me. I have been a listening ear for her showing support for over 6 years now and sometimes, you can’t just be supportive for someone who is in delusion. It’s unfortunate because I was the only person doing that for her. Now she is only surrounded by others within her belief system who truly believe that she is a prophet… but I’m done. I’m glad to know that directly challenging her is not helpful though, I don’t want to do anything that could make it worse. I’m just going to disengage indefinitely
Dang, delusion must be an addiction at this point.
It is! Read J. Krishnamurti for freedom from religious delusion and other delusions, too.
@@joshbanker8743 J. Krishnamurti elaborated on that, read him online.
This is important stuff. I have a dear friend who's gone through this for many years. Every once in a while he surfaces out of it and he's in one of those states right now so that we can talk just normally. I used to challenge him but that just made things worse so everything that you're saying makes good sense to me. Unfortunately there is a pipeline that draws people into these forms of delusions and it's kind of evil.
Excellent content.
I just found your channel. I was a minister in the evangelical Christian church for over 30 years. I've been an atheist for the last 11 years now. I'm so glad someone else categorizes some religious beliefs as delusional. So many atheist are afraid to label it as a delusion. As delusion is a mental disorder. I argue against that all the time. Religious beliefs are more than not delusional.
When one group persecutes another group that causes an us vs them attitude begins. Separation and hate.
Hate and war. Murder and death.
Love each other is what religion is all about. No hate. All love and we have peace.
Religion being all about love is a personal wish of what it should be. It definitely is not rooted in any kind of reality. Religion is not truth, so there is no TRUE religious essence. Religion is an ignorance that justifies any horror sent from "god".
Fascinating.
Your channel is on my list of favorites. Keep it up.
I used to believe that the people who could help me the best were Christian enthusiasts! I was so fucking wrong!!! I was taught this and it honestly pissed me off for the longest time!
So happy you made this! Thank you!
A really good talk. What is needed now is a way to show people that the answers are in science and not the supernatural. Yes we are just on the beginning of this journey, but we must be much less supportive of religion institutions which through an altruistic facade seem to be more about amassing wealth. I don’t say that the altruism is entirely negative, but to constantly bombard vulnerable people with religious nonsense is to me counterproductive.
Wow. Thank you!! I'm so glad I found your channel.
This is a very cogent and will done video on a difficult topic. Thank you! I bought your book as well!
Greetings from Croatia ( Eastern Europe). l can't tell you how helpful you, Mindshift and other youtube channels are for every christian who is strugling with doubts and disbelive. l was born and raised as a Roman Catholic, and l was always so confused about how many saints the Catholic Church has. And how much we worship the virgin Mary even thought it is not in accordance with the Bible. My closest friends and family are good Christians because they don't read the Bible. They prefer to listen to what the priest says at mass and thus have a sense of comfort and safety. I understand that, because l was catholic for 47 years. And l was a true belliver. But my path of deconstruction is quick and painless because my family is very liberal and they respect my decision. Besides my mom, she is 76 years and it would be too much of a shock and fear for her.
Europe. not eastern Europe.
Remember, all that "religion" disappears when survival of the fittest is at play. In your countries situation that's WWII and the Yugo civil war. It obviously had no bearing on events when the sh@t hit the fan. So, therefore, it is a nothing burger and can't override animalistic and survival mechanisms. Its simply a do-gooder overlay that only works when convenient. A fraud in other words.
@@brankobelfranin8815 It's just a label...
(I'm from Poland. I don't know if this is Eastern, Central, Western... And what it possibly could even mean)
My new favorite channel 😊
Thank you Britt for your professional insight!
Great video! I wish every American (and non-american!) could watch and understand this.
Thank you, Britt! Good, important information.
I seek enlightenment. I believe I found some here. Thank you.
I love the 'delusion' where someone quotes a bible verse to justify the bible is authentic.
I remember where I worked there would be religious pamphlets left in the restrooms for people to read. On was titled how do we know the Bible is the word of god. Couldn’t stop laughing that every verification of the Bible in the pamphlet text referred to passages in the Bible. 😅
@@kenrausch4882
As if those pamphlets are going to convince anyone of anything.
Hey Britt. I am glad I found you. This is a great work you are doing here. One have to have a total open mind to grasp your concept. I am an open minded but still subscribe to some sort of infinite power. Keep up the good work.
Awesome! You have given answers to some of my puzzling questions with clarity. Thank you so much for your content!
I haven’t ever heard of the movie you mentioned. Looking forward to watching it! Thanks for all your content, Britt!
Thank you soooo much!!! Keep it up❤🌹
I’m a survivor of Religious Trauma (as a cult survivor) . Ended going to seminary and earned an MTS just to try to reset . Pretty much an Agnostic/Non-Theist now. I have/ had at least 5 of those you listed. I literally laugh at myself. Especially when I tell someone about it. Fkn Hilarious now. Man that was a TRIP. I’m a physician. Do You Believe That SHIT??!!
Will always think of myself as a survivor. I’ll always be at risk for that Sh*t. Looking back , I should kick my Own Ass for falling for that sh*t. (Then again I did, TRUST) It’s like you can never be an Ex-Alcoholic. Human beings need an origin story I guess. I totally hear what you’re saying cause that sh*t was me🫤
When you go in to the psychotic state? You must go all in, completely. That's is the thing with Christianity. You must go all in. Then you can experience fantastic things in your mind. The release, the joy. Wisdom, and so on. You understand your inner thoughts, and why Things happened in your life. Am glad you are out from religion. It's a real trip.
You stated my exact thoughts as I look back at myself...as a Baptist minister! How the fuck did I go all in on that shit?! Who was that guy? What was he suffering from?! Peter Pan syndrome? I blow my own mind that I truly deeply believed that shit.
Very informative. Thank you. Good luck on your journey.
Explains a lot, Like joseph smith Writing the book of mormon at an accelerated pace being used as evidence of divinity.
Yes, I have brought the Joesph Smith story of writing the Book of Mormon in a short period of time as the Mormons like to claim. I once worked in a highly supervised maximum security unit of a correctional facility. we had more than a few men there who wrote amazing scriptures. Hundreds of pages of script that you would not be able to differentiate between biblical and non biblical cannon. I was very amazed at these men’s abilities. One rewrote the entire Bible and had it all memorized with various people’s and places that if you didn’t know the difference, you wouldn’t be able to tell it was fabricated.
Believing in an unprovable all powerful invisible Sky fairy that lives in a mythical place called heaven who will send you to an equally mythical place called hell if you don't OBEY OBEY OBEY is the only symptom of delusion I need to see.
Thank you. This content has so much depth and relevance that any open minded religious person, can see where he is going wrong. Truly helpful. ❤
This is really a fantastic and succinct way of explaining the origins and function of religious thought.
Some say the realization that "we don't know shit about fuck" is the beginning of wisdom.
Love your position on how to handle religious fundamentalists. Fear element is huge in religion. 2023 Paul MacKenzie from Kenya, AFRICA convinced hundreds to starve themselves to salvation. What kind of devotion would lead someone to do this? I sure don't know, but the fear religions created is real. Believe or ELSE. 38 years free!
Yeah, I've been through this, it's scary and painful.
I like what you said about how invalidating a person's delusions doesn't help them. Same with Religious OCD. I used to see therapists who were completely unspiritual. When I tried to talk to them about my spiritual concerns, and even scrupulosity, I was stonewalled. Yes, this only drives a person deeper in, to cling even further to their obsessions. Thankfully, years later, I did find a doctor who shared my faith and was able to help me sort it out. She validated what I was experiencing, and mirrored reality back to me.
Invalidating a person's delusion would help an honest seeker. Not one who wants to stay deluded and seeks to only entertain those who share their delusion. Sometimes we just have to grow up and it's hard but necessary to mental health.
Wow! This answered so many questions for me. Thank you!
Amazing video. I appreciate your point that these subconscious processes unfold in all of us, and that conditions like religious psychosis and religious delusion can happen to all of us, even if some delusional frameworks don’t easily fit into traditional paradigms. People fall into this stuff because they want to feel accepted and connected, creating inner worlds to gain control, and pulling them out of that requires empathy, while pushing back too much isn’t helpful since these delusions are so entrenched and personal. When you just say they’re completely wrong and everything they’re saying is delusional, it can make them feel like that which is so personal and deeply connected to their being isn’t real or valid, which is not only emotionally painful but slightly wrong in the sense that their ideas are at the least grounded in their emotional and social needs as a human.
My question is, if too much pushback makes things worse, should we be calling them delusions? If not, what’s a better term?
Incredible info and I didn't know i needed this more ! Thanks so much. I always thought it was a delusion. Happy knowing it is a thing.
Thanks!
Great video!😊
I had many of these as a child/tweenager. I was raised in a lapsed Catholic family and went to a liberal Church of England school so i wasnt around any fundamentalism. But i had a lot of trauma and was also undiagnosed dyspraxic and autistic. I fixated on God because the school church was my safe place. What you said here about delusions giving you an identity in times of crisis made a lot of sense to me...i was convinced God had chosen me for something special and i would grow up to be a saint of some kind. For a bullied, abused kid, it was incredibly comforting. Unfortunately i ended up in my teenage years with religious OCD, convinced the devil was after me. Im now what i would call a naturalistic neopagan, but unfortunately 'woo' is on the rise in the neopagan community too and its getting harder and harder for me to engage.
Same. I’m also dealing with this problem, and I was told that my autistic special interests are “the devil tempting me”, “idolatry,” “demons”, etc. when I’m just not buying that. I honestly feel so much enlightenment here and I’ve found better gods and goddesses than the Bible god.
Thank you for the subtitles.
Thank you for this video, it was extremely insightful and helpful. I have a dear friend from high school (1960s) who reconnected with me about a year ago. An intelligent woman and once brilliant chemist with a successful career and two children (now grown), she has been lost in religious psychosis for over a decade. Your diagnosis is spot on in every particular. She is completely ostracized by her family and most friends and lives a very isolated life. It is part of a probably genetic predisposition to depression and psychological problems, PTSD from childhood events involving her father's early death and her mother's psychological issues, and severe health issues. I do not challenge her beliefs or descriptions of supernatural encounters, merely stating that I cannon judge them because they were not my experiences. I remain supportive and positive by email mostly as I live in another country. I did see her several times earlier this year and found her very pleasant if sometimes difficult to understand. Suggestions of small changes to her life have had no result. At this point in her life (75 years) I am not sure that anything will shake her immersion in religious psychosis and perhaps it is better not to try. Suggestions?
Not atheist here. I really enjoyed your video. Very soundly thought out. Impressive. Be well be safe.
We should work 9 to 5, have two weeks of vacation for 30 years, with three kids graduating from prestigious colleges, and call this the best of all possibilities.
Excellent. Religion explained from a physicalist’s point of view, thoughtly balanced with acknowledged unprovable assumptions of its own.
A physicalist? Haha I guess that's the same as a realist? Someone who stays with universally verifiable realities and doesn't see any true wisdom coming from the imagined alternatives? Y'all god folks use words to protect delusions in a "respectable: way but out here in reality we're on to you.
Thank you. Very thorough presentation. The human brain is the human universe, all inclusive of everything.
Love to see more.
Stay well.
Very good an informative Thank you ❤
You have described every religious person I have ever known.
Thank you, a video about two of my favorite subjects intersecting was just what I needed today.
Straight to the point thank you
23:08 ❤ this is a wonderful video. You have added to the world in ways you know not.
This is excellent! Thanks.
Your spot on describing the mind of spiritual religious beliefs of some people,they can't or will not use reasoning or reality.Some people need a master. When i embraced atheism many,many,years ago i feel more liberating, empathy, and open minded and better off for it.
Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. This is YOU. 1:13
Excellent, very clear, agree 💯 thanks for sharing !
There are so many "prophets" as you had described all over UA-cam maam - fixated on end times and claiming special revelation on many things - sadly, mostly Americans.. they're all over UA-cam and looking at their followers and comments, it is quite unnerving..
Excellent! A birth to age 21 bible-reading, church-going christian, and from age 30-48 a catholic, now, at 84 - now that the poison from the scorpion bite has worn off, I feel wonderfully free from all those beliefs. I wonder, though, what’s still lurking in the unconscious!? 🤣 Laughter is my “religion” now! Thank you for the way you deliver your ideas. I’m not sure you’re right about it all coming from the brain, but I laughed when you said you don’t know shit about fuck! 😂🤣😆❤
Speaking as a 'professional religious person' I have never hesitated to call anyone on any form of religious delusion. I coinsider it my first responsibility. The main reason people with religious delusion seek out clergy is for validation of theier delusion. You absolutely cannot validate their delusion. The won't like hearing that and will probably re-frame you as 'part of the problem,' but this is your responsibility, especially as a priest or pastor. Don't even humour someone with religious delusion.
❤ Live and let live.
Or let die. ❤❤❤❤
Very good podcast..explains a lot..very articulately presented..
I work with people who have some, not all, of these and they see it as putting forth the gospel. Thank you for the info on the Three Christs and not confronting the believer, I felt that would not necessarily cause them to slap their foreheads and exclaim, My, how could I have been so deluded. Now I understand it rocks them back into the Faith more solidly.
I am at a place in my life where I move back and forth with the idea of God. I'm experiencing life problems and I am trying to not attach a story for my suffering. I find it challenging not to ask for strength from God, though I'm battling with the existence of God. I realize that this has been my safety net, and without I find it hard to cope.
I was once in this position and it sucks. Now, I know, If I just give you the answer “𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭“ you'll just continue stressing...“how do you know for sure?“
How I moved forward?...it's a long story, but in short, I followed the “god-crumbs”, which led to the Sumerians.
You see, questions like; what are we? where are we from? What inhabited the earth before us? What happens when we die?, etc, are all recurring questions throughout every generation.
So the Sumerians theorized “what if there’re aliens (Anunnaki gods) and what if we were created by these aliens?”….but they didn’t stop there. They created their own characters (Enlil, Enki, etc) which led to many famous stories (creation myth story, Ziusudra and the flood story, etc), which were all copied and remixed by every later civilizations.
Tho I’ve wasted quality time on this, one thing I’ve learned is that everyone has to embark on their own journey to find peace tho we’re all going to end up with the same answer; it’s the only way that you’ll finally have some peace of mind…anyways, hope I was helpful, good luck🥲
It’s okay, you can get through and find strength within yourself. Hope things get better for you sister!
A counselor you need...on real spiritual matters.
@@joshbanker8743their is no christian god...or any other manufactured god. But their is the great silver orb.
@@gothboschincarnate3931 Where's that?
LOL, loving your video. It's mostly excellent. There's just the rare exception when you have kickass 3 letter agency remote viewers involved and they have high levels of security clearance and they can cross check psychic information with real world events and it all adds up to courtroom drama. It's rare but it happens. You are good at what you do.
Great to bring this to us.
I would like a bit more explanation of what is happening, saying hearing the voice of God is one thing but explaining why that is an issue would help. If God is within that voice can be higher self, moments of peace in meditation.
Great analysis
Thank God that we are "slowly" moving out of the "Age of ♓ Pisces(faith, belief, fear, illusion, delusion, ignorance) and moving into the "Age of ♒ Aquarius"(science, technology, knowledge, liberation from 😨 fear based "beliefs"😊🎉✌️ 💜.
Important video! It is also actual, because we have the war ”against satanic west” by Putin.
Perhaps we have territorial thinking in our collective evolution.
I appreciate the clearness of your text and speak. I hope that this video helps many people, who suffers irrational beliefs and also those, who has these problems in family. Thank you for your splendid work!
Excellent discussion!
currently I don't have religious delusions, I feel that each persons have some vibes or energy but it's not related to god, but inner feelings
I've seen most of these symptoms, thankfully not all in one person. Possibly one of the most tiresome forms of delusion.
I was sure I would bong out on at least 1 out of 10, but nope I got none of them. I have had a few, to some degree in the past though, when I was in a cult, but never to the extent that I witnessed in some of my peers. Interesting stuff!
Being a Christian can be confusing too. Read Hearers of the Word or Theological Aesthetics which show how you can confuse between yourself, your neighbor, the Crucified, and God in your emotions and your thinking.
People that lack true self worth and value get way into this stuff. It’s insane how many videos and out there in so many ways feeding the psychosis.
This sums up America in the first three minutes
I like this video.
really good video
The problem with introducing professional help is that their delusions will make them only seek the "professionals" who also hold the same delusions. They are taught not to trust secular therapy... "it's of the devil."
I saw you on Brandon’s channel! Great video, I really think my mother is living with a mental illness and religion is like the fuel to her fire. Everything you said reminds me of her behavior. The constant writing, thinking she’s seeing patterns in numbers (stares at stock market numbers for hours everyday), thinking god is giving her special knowledge, isolation, apocalyptic obsessions, etc. I no longer talk to her because it became incredibly toxic. You kinda look and sound like Kourtney kardashian (that was a random thought😂)
The Master and Margarita is the greatest work I've ever read in expressing the other side and the Atheist delusion and how it tore apart Russia after the revolution, creating a hell on earth.
I regret to believe fortune tellers saying me to believe in dreams. I don't think about it anymore, I feel happy and free
Fascinating. One of the proofs of mormonism is supposed to be how fast joseph smith could write. but this is explicable.
People who believe they are "God's chosen people"...
Like my yoga teacher told me in the '90's - 'I am disillusioned - every day.'
Fare thee well - on life's journey
Now I’m curious what no nonsense spirituality would think of Darth Dawkins and his communication style?
Wonderful that she broke free from the most delusional religion and all the crazed beliefs. There is so much that one can occupy one’s interest, instead of going over a cliff into religious pathology.
Wow that was like drinking ambrosia from a fire hose! It is rare here on UA-cam to encounter such a tight well argued essay. I'm so glad I stayed with you to the end where you described how we are all just being humans grappling with human reality. New subscriber here. You deserve to be boosted into the ranks of Matt Delahunty, Sam Harris and their eloquent and even handed colleagues.
Grateful to have found you. You are what I needed
Excellent, thank you.
Number one sign of religious delusion is beleiving in a god. Invisible friends beyond early childhood years is scary worrying.
....and when Donna Douglas tells your weight? Then what?
_"Number one sign of religious delusion is beleiving in a god."_
But they believe in a god who used one of his sons as a human sacrifice to himself. LOL
@EvilXtianity Worse, they believe he IS the son who sacrifices himself to himself. No wonder their brains give up and collapse in a corner somewhere.
If there is no God then why would it matter what people believe? To whom or what could it possibly matter to? Why would you even care?
@adamgoldwasser Have you been alive lately? The religious right imposing their "morality" on others? Get with the programme.
I read Joseph Campbell's "The hero with a thousand faces" many many years ago anth although he focused more on mythology, it came very close the what you are explaining here.
Man was not created by god, man created gods.
My new focus in theology is addressig religious trauma. There are more books out there than you would think as people are getting the courage to reveal the trauma that they experienced or the mental health crisis that they exprienced at the hands of their chuch leaders or the doctine itself. Religion adds another layer to non-religious trauma because there is no accountability if you can use the Bible or a "God spoke to me..." phrases. I am a victim of it and am healing through talking about it and helping others. Some denominations are against all forms of Mental Health. Ouch! I am not welcome at many churches.