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.
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 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.
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.
@@idreadFell365 its an addiction. And a seething one at that. Like candy on the shelf. People like me can fall into deep trances and have all of these amazing experiences that we create in our mind somehow.
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!
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🫤
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 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😂)
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?
Another one is a distorted kind of empathy, where the sins of another produces feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety about punishment, leading to a strong impulse to correct and punish the other person.
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!
First, congratulations on creating this excellent lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Second, have you written anything on this topic and are willing to share it. Third, I encourage you to continue your work and, if you are so inclined, to connect with Sam Harris and/or Richard Dawkins and/or Michael Shermer. I would much enjoy listening to the three of you in conversation around this topic. Wishing you all the best !
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🥲
That was a bit eye opening for me as I went through losing 3 loved ones in one year, then had some kind of spiritual awakening, very blissful for a month straight, seeing patterns everywhere still do every day randomly 11:11,333,444, ect, synchronicities that I can’t explain, but I was also a victim of childhood trauma, so there’s that, I’m a pattern recognition machine that wants to feel special in a psycho world 😮.
I'm a highly spiritual but atheist person who has intense periods of writing, and honestly, I deeply enjoy them. Even though it feels like it's coming from another source, I'm thankfully aware that it's from my deep mind. Likewise, even though I suffer from religious OCD due to my conservative religious past, I'm thankfully doing my best to battle it, like countering the guilt using critical thinking. I was able to able to successfully be atheist for a long time, but I've been relapsing into religious delusions recently. Quakerism, a more grounded branch of Christianity, has helped my non-rational part of the brain in understanding that "God" is within, and effectively my intuition highly empowered. I'll say this that religion/spirituality is excellent at empowering the creative power of the mind, though you have to learn how to avoid its negative aspects, whether they're ideas or people.
_"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
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.
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.
I first saw you dialoging with Brandon from Mindshift. I've watching several of your videos now, and this content is fascinating. I think you do know plenty of "shit about fuck." I am glad you worked with Brandon because, despite my clear interest in this type of content and frequent searches for it, your channel was never returned as a result. Thank you for this video.
As a former Theravada Buddhist I experienced a lot of that psychosis and the sad thing of this religion is that this kind of experience is considered proof of the reality of the religious claims.
If your priorities are the afterlife based on anchient books and fast talking scammers it will cause you all kinds of problems in this life in reality ...confusion /career and finances / family and all relationships will be under stress... beware folks always use your common scence and rational thinking .
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.
Britt, I’ve studied these topics, including philosophy and jurisprudence, for decades. And while all this information is interesting, like going to a doctor or a lawyer and not getting a “To-Do List” - a treatment plan, remedy or counsel (as the case may be) - the information is often useless. Let’s imagine someone recognizes a number of these delusions or psychoses in themselves or others, what should they do-specifically? Thanks, yYM
I just stumbled across your UA-cam channel. Great find. Very deep, interesting and important topics most don't want to deal with. With that in mind, do you think that the gender ideology/identity situation seems to be a bit religious in their enactment of what they feel is their identity? Just curious what your position is. Thanks again!
So the fact that you FEEL like it's genuine. That means it's fake. "You know it's real because it looks so fake." How can you win with rules like this?
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If you were obeying a commandment then you knew something about religion. Enough to know about commandments. Just because we look backward and think I didn’t know something as deeply or consciously as I do now therefore I didn’t know it at all is a flawed understanding of how absorbent and understanding young children are. I have deconstructed but my wife and kids have not. My wife likes to retroactively apply meaning to things and over emphasize the patterns of random dreams. For instance her and my kids didn’t become deeply religious until Covid. My wife dove deeply many many months before my kids so we suddenly had Jesus pictures in the house and Devine mercy paintings. The Robert Powell Jesus of Nazareth movie was being watched in constant replay. At some point one of my kids (7 years) said they saw a vision of a man in a white robe and sandals in my back yard. Then as my wife took my kids to church more and more she started referencing this “vision” as the kids being called by God and asking, “how could they see that exact thing before they started going to church and knew about Jesus”? BECAUSE THAT IMAGE IS EVERYWHERE!!!! You cannot avoid Jesus or religious imagery and kids pick up on it more than we realize. That voice in you heard could have just been your own subconscious or internal monologue expressing a thought you as a child heard but hadn’t learnt to actively engage with. Over the years we embellish things we see as having significance to our lives. Stories get exaggerated for effect and contradicting evidence or points get forgotten and ignored. This is a very normal thing for humans to do. It’s part of our psychology - not supernatural.
Iv you seek treatment for mental issues you’re given a list of names of psychologists and psychiatrists from your insurance companies. Psychologists and psychiatrists from the list are labeled ‘faith based’ or secular. It’s disturbing that people choose ‘faith based’ therapists since they believe in talking snakes and donkeys. How can they treat people using their insane religious beliefs. That is malpractice. NO one should be a therapist if they aren’t even able to separate fact from insane beliefs. It’s also very sad that churches have their leaders counsel members using the immoral, disturbing Bible to treat people.
All theists, across thousands of religions and denominations, believe their way is "the one true way". They dont even for a moment stop to sincerely consider how paradoxical that is. All other faiths are silly, except theirs. All other faiths are myths, except theirs. All other faiths are wrong, except theirs. Even those who convert from one faith to another never consider the irony. The dogma prohibits any shred of critical thought. I believe that's what most of them find to be relieving. It's a method of programming that relieves them of the "burden" of autonomy.
You are generalizing unfairly here. Some movements like theosophy are perennialist in nature. That is, they attempt to find the underlying truth of all world religions
@@Hypothetical-Being A gnostic belief in divine absolutes (a true way); A belief to "know" what has been unknowable; A belief in deities and spirits; A belief to know the purpose and meaning of life; that certain things are right in some religions, yet wrong enough to form another one-- makes theosophy fit nicely in my original post.
I sometimes think that I'm the second coming of Christ or the Antichrist since 2020. It seems to be stable and so far I'm able to evaluate those thoughts as religious delusions.
Ex-seminarian and PhD candidate in academic Textual Criticism. Slogged through all of the languages and translated extra-canonical texts. I left because it seemed awfully odd to get a doctorate degree designed to continually debunk the BS of that text and be broke to boot. Besides, these delusional folks really get in the way of those of us who really ARE god…. LOL!
I did heal a boy that was mute!!! He could make sounds but could not talk. Two years later, he was able to thank me in speech!!! I said: Don't thank me, thank Issac!!! (I play James Son of Zebadee, and the boy was the donkey wrangler. Issac is a jackass!!! ) A donkey made him frustrated and he spoke!!! LoL 😵💫 No magic here.
This is one of those videos containing such pertinent information that we would be better off if every junior high school kid was exposed to at least once or twice. At least. -- God told me he agrees 😂
People only think of an afterlife and seeing loved ones in the short term Sounds good.What will living FOREVER do to you though ? Yikes.!And you can't leave? Scary!!
I don’t believe in an afterlife, but this argument is ridiculously unintelligent. Obviously a perfect brain in a perfect world would not have the issue of depletion of excitement over time. If one is able to be happy and content forever, your objection is invalid. Honestly, I think this argument is just a cope for people who don’t want to feel the brunt reality of oblivion. Given how fast life is going, I could easily see living 500 with zero boredom even with this crappy unoptimized brain.
@@rogersacco4624 It is naive, but that wasn’t my argument, now was it? Your smooth brain is doing the same thing hyper religious people do: refusing to think critically and honestly about an alternative perspective.
Unless we know little of this natural existence …. Limited senses , limited knowledge of our ecology and the possibility that more advanced life, a higher sense of awareness and advanced technology coexists . NDE’s and observed strangeness in our space cannot be illusion. There’s more going on , our interpretation of these phenomena is responsible for all this confusion.
I find this “void” concept confusing. If it was a void which produced existential dread it seems obvious that you were not aware of your own presence as the subject. Being terrified limits our awareness. There could not be a void without your witnessing presence. The void is in the self. Not the other way round. Once you know yourself to be there with the void it becomes a profound and generative inquiry. It helps you produce your evolution. This is a wonderful hobby built into the reality for the nihilist. It must be possible to be a happy nihilist. Consciousness is unlimited. God is neither real nor unreal. But they both conspire for your existence and success.
I need to hold on to the belief that my mind is part of the universal mind that is dreaming this whole thing up. Do you think this belief is harmful or delusional?
You may be right, you may be wrong, but the key work you said is *need. If you need something to be true, there's a fear underneath that that we can face directly.
Not an atheist and I hate religion however there is other life form in this life . We r not alone. If you think we are alone in this multiverse you have to to extremely arrogant
I believe in God, yet what keeps me grounded is that what I do matters if for nothing else to me. My question is why would you try to destroy faith that keeps a person grounded in life. I will admit that fanaticism is an excess of religious fervor. But I was raised that everything in moderation. This has allowed me to still find peace in my faith. That I believe in God. That there is a God. That also brings hope and directs my morals. So there is a lot of truth to what you say, but don't try to play God yourself. Thus destroying healthy faith.
This woman is not speaking to those with a “healthy faith.” It is very easy for some people to fall into an unhealthy religious fervor, to the point that it destroys them mentally, emotionally, socially, AND spiritually. That is who she is speaking to.
Good for you, you want a cookie 🍪 no one cares you’re not the target audience of this video. Just like the rest of the religious folks you force yourself where you don’t belong & then wanna cry abt how it’s not pleasing to you. disgustingly selfish. If you’re grounded in your faith then why are you here
I don't think any faith is healthy, and faith is not a moral virtue. Faith in the correct unbelievable story is not a virtue. We can build better morals, better tools, and better spirituality without God. The reason that I challenge people's grounded faith is because Im so glad someone did that for me. I'm so glad that people challenged my faith so I could face my fears directly and find a life of beauty and freedom on the other side of stories I wanted to be true but arent.
I would add an 11th sign: claiming to know what can't be known; i.e., that God exists or does not exist. The only options here that are not arrogantly stupid is to embrace faith in the face of objective uncertainty or to be an agnostic. If only atheists knew how much they resemble fundamentalists.... Small wonder that so many young people who deconstruct the brittle religion in which they were raised wind up flipping from one smug certainty to another on the opposite side of the same spectrum.
Atheists aren’t claiming to know what cannot be known, they are simply saying that they don’t believe any of the thousands of organized religions that have ever existed because there’s never been any proof.
Athiests ,with rare execption, don't say "There is no god". They withold belief until evidince is presented. That said, everyone can say there is no god in as much as you can say there are no fairies or elves. For all practical purposes they don't exist. Do we know for 100% certain? Of course not but until there is a reason to accept it we act like it doesn't exist. Agnosticism is about knowledge , not belief and of course we are all agnostic in that sense so it's a useless word.
Well this explains political beliefs. EVen when presented with facts, they will do mental gymnastics to explain it away in order to keep their belief intact. And not to sound too machiavellian, but clearly the psychology behind this is being used on Americans.
um I was not expecting F bombs. My 6 and 3 year old are listening. Was that really necessary? That weird phrase wasn't that funny. Then just throw another one in for good measure.
What you call delusion, others call faith. I mean... it's just perspective. You're just labeling Christianity as delusion and then saying, see? Fits into the requirements I made, based off of what it is, to say that it's false. Circular. A weak tactic in my opinion. -An atheist.
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I think you're assigning agency and wants/needs to the brain that it doesn't naturally have. How much actual science of neurology/biology/genetics and others have you studied?
just the claime of a "god" is not justifiable. no one knows what that is. we are an animal like all the others- totally dependent on healthy/diverse ecosystems- which by the way are all under decline.
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There's only one sign of religious delusion. You believe in some magical invisible sky fairy
The universe acts as if there is one. One central cause for all things. All things bound by one set of rules. All things made with the same stuff. Nothing is random. All causes are predetermined by the inherent nature of the stuff. Randomness doesn’t exist. Randomness is a failure to comprehend the big picture
Is “hearing the Holy Spirit” one of these delusions? My parents always talk about how they know what’s right from the Holy Spirit speaking to them. I think they’re delusional narcissists.
Or dummies couldn't make their way in the material world so they drop out as failures and say " only the afterlife and spirit are important " a comfortable excuse for them to accept their failure to have any success in the real world They remain in a self sabotage mindset because of the delusion that controls them .
These delusions are a result of bad theology taught by charismatic churches. Feelings and experiences are emphasized over scriptural understanding. Charismatic churches are increasing in number and teach heresy because scripture is apparently not enough. The understanding of scripture in these churches is terrible. Adding to scripture is common even though we are forbidden from doing so. The severe penalties for false prophecy are brushed under the rug. Scripture and prayer is all that is needed to understand God's character, His plans, and our place in creation.
If scripture and prayer were all needed, you wouldn't have so many churches even within one denomination. I find believers to be far more prideful than atheists. Atheists say I'm not convinced. Believers say everyone else is deceived and everyone else's theology is bad by my experience and my theology is right. I don't have the hubris for that.
@@nononsensespirituality The more churches and denominations the better because of redundancy. False teaching by one big shot is not going to corrupt everything. False teaching is rampant. Pride for a true believer has been destroyed long ago. God hates pride. It is the primary issue that creates separation. All I have is scripture and it is available to all.
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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.
I love this, I’m so glad someone’s making this known, there are way too many people suffering from this influencing others
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 🇮🇪
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.
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.
My new favorite channel 😊
Dang, delusion must be an addiction at this point.
@@idreadFell365 its an addiction. And a seething one at that. Like candy on the shelf. People like me can fall into deep trances and have all of these amazing experiences that we create in our mind somehow.
Sooooo good, finally someone connecting the dots!! Especially psychological explanations! Thank you!
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!
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.
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. 🏆
Fascinating.
Your channel is on my list of favorites. 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🫤
Thank you Britt for your professional insight!
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 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😂)
Thank you, Britt! Good, important information.
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?
Excellent. Religion explained from a physicalist’s point of view, thoughtly balanced with acknowledged unprovable assumptions of its own.
Another one is a distorted kind of empathy, where the sins of another produces feelings of guilt, shame, and anxiety about punishment, leading to a strong impulse to correct and punish the other person.
Very helpful information. Thank you for this. 🔥
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. ❤
Grateful to have found you. You are what I needed
Fascinating. One of the proofs of mormonism is supposed to be how fast joseph smith could write. but this is explicable.
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!
First, congratulations on creating this excellent lecture. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Second, have you written anything on this topic and are willing to share it. Third, I encourage you to continue your work and, if you are so inclined, to connect with Sam Harris and/or Richard Dawkins and/or Michael Shermer. I would much enjoy listening to the three of you in conversation around this topic. Wishing you all the best !
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.
There is no God
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...an real spiritual matters.
@@joshbanker8743their is no christian god...or any other manufactured god. But their is the great silver orb.
That was a bit eye opening for me as I went through losing 3 loved ones in one year, then had some kind of spiritual awakening, very blissful for a month straight, seeing patterns everywhere still do every day randomly 11:11,333,444, ect, synchronicities that I can’t explain, but I was also a victim of childhood trauma, so there’s that, I’m a pattern recognition machine that wants to feel special in a psycho world 😮.
Thank you, I enjoyed your video.
I'm a highly spiritual but atheist person who has intense periods of writing, and honestly, I deeply enjoy them. Even though it feels like it's coming from another source, I'm thankfully aware that it's from my deep mind. Likewise, even though I suffer from religious OCD due to my conservative religious past, I'm thankfully doing my best to battle it, like countering the guilt using critical thinking. I was able to able to successfully be atheist for a long time, but I've been relapsing into religious delusions recently. Quakerism, a more grounded branch of Christianity, has helped my non-rational part of the brain in understanding that "God" is within, and effectively my intuition highly empowered.
I'll say this that religion/spirituality is excellent at empowering the creative power of the mind, though you have to learn how to avoid its negative aspects, whether they're ideas or people.
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.
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.
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.
I first saw you dialoging with Brandon from Mindshift. I've watching several of your videos now, and this content is fascinating. I think you do know plenty of "shit about fuck." I am glad you worked with Brandon because, despite my clear interest in this type of content and frequent searches for it, your channel was never returned as a result. Thank you for this video.
I feel less crazy in this moment. Thank you
As a former Theravada Buddhist I experienced a lot of that psychosis and the sad thing of this religion is that this kind of experience is considered proof of the reality of the religious claims.
If your priorities are the afterlife based on anchient books and fast talking scammers it will cause you all kinds of problems in this life in reality ...confusion /career and finances / family and all relationships will be under stress... beware folks always use your common scence and rational thinking .
Thank you ❤Britt.
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.
I think I fear dying more than death. In context that might be a distinction without a difference.
Britt,
I’ve studied these topics, including philosophy and jurisprudence, for decades. And while all this information is interesting, like going to a doctor or a lawyer and not getting a “To-Do List” - a treatment plan, remedy or counsel (as the case may be) - the information is often useless.
Let’s imagine someone recognizes a number of these delusions or psychoses in themselves or others, what should they do-specifically?
Thanks,
yYM
Now I’m curious what no nonsense spirituality would think of Darth Dawkins and his communication style?
I just stumbled across your UA-cam channel. Great find. Very deep, interesting and important topics most don't want to deal with.
With that in mind, do you think that the gender ideology/identity situation seems to be a bit religious in their enactment of what they feel is their identity? Just curious what your position is.
Thanks again!
So the fact that you FEEL like it's genuine. That means it's fake. "You know it's real because it looks so fake." How can you win with rules like this?
I check more of these boxes than I’m comfortable with and I’m an Athiest 😅
Excellent content, thank you.
Many religious people believe that the brain fits religion, when in reality they are trying to make their religion fit the brain........
As an athiest and former christian, Grandiosity and a sense of surveillance and punishment is all I ever got from believing in Jesus Christ
Hopefully you didn't do this-
“No one can become my disciple unless you give up all of your possessions."
(Luke 14:33)
My biological father meets 7/10 of these points.
Ty for making this vid my whole family are delusional Catholics much love from Montana
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How do you explain a voice that helped me obey a commandment when I was six years old and never knew a thing about religion?
there, there, sweetie.
If you were obeying a commandment then you knew something about religion. Enough to know about commandments. Just because we look backward and think I didn’t know something as deeply or consciously as I do now therefore I didn’t know it at all is a flawed understanding of how absorbent and understanding young children are.
I have deconstructed but my wife and kids have not. My wife likes to retroactively apply meaning to things and over emphasize the patterns of random dreams. For instance her and my kids didn’t become deeply religious until Covid. My wife dove deeply many many months before my kids so we suddenly had Jesus pictures in the house and Devine mercy paintings. The Robert Powell Jesus of Nazareth movie was being watched in constant replay. At some point one of my kids (7 years) said they saw a vision of a man in a white robe and sandals in my back yard. Then as my wife took my kids to church more and more she started referencing this “vision” as the kids being called by God and asking, “how could they see that exact thing before they started going to church and knew about Jesus”?
BECAUSE THAT IMAGE IS EVERYWHERE!!!! You cannot avoid Jesus or religious imagery and kids pick up on it more than we realize.
That voice in you heard could have just been your own subconscious or internal monologue expressing a thought you as a child heard but hadn’t learnt to actively engage with. Over the years we embellish things we see as having significance to our lives. Stories get exaggerated for effect and contradicting evidence or points get forgotten and ignored. This is a very normal thing for humans to do. It’s part of our psychology - not supernatural.
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Sorry..I was not living in your world description. This was in 1949 in a small farming community in Idaho. Not any comparison.
Great video! I think this where Russell Brand is at the moment 😬
Yes and that blows my mind he seemed smarter than that .
Would this also apply to Satanism and witch craft?and Also, pseudo science ? Thank you much appreciated 🤔
Iv you seek treatment for mental issues you’re given a list of names of psychologists and psychiatrists from your insurance companies. Psychologists and psychiatrists from the list are labeled ‘faith based’ or secular. It’s disturbing that people choose ‘faith based’ therapists since they believe in talking snakes and donkeys. How can they treat people using their insane religious beliefs. That is malpractice. NO one should be a therapist if they aren’t even able to separate fact from insane beliefs.
It’s also very sad that churches have their leaders counsel members using the immoral, disturbing Bible to treat people.
Religious OCD is the highway to all these lol
All theists, across thousands of religions and denominations, believe their way is "the one true way". They dont even for a moment stop to sincerely consider how paradoxical that is. All other faiths are silly, except theirs. All other faiths are myths, except theirs. All other faiths are wrong, except theirs. Even those who convert from one faith to another never consider the irony. The dogma prohibits any shred of critical thought. I believe that's what most of them find to be relieving. It's a method of programming that relieves them of the "burden" of autonomy.
It's not all of them. Some believe that the truth is in putting all the pieces together in a practically infinite puzzle.
You are generalizing unfairly here. Some movements like theosophy are perennialist in nature. That is, they attempt to find the underlying truth of all world religions
@@Hypothetical-Being A gnostic belief in divine absolutes (a true way);
A belief to "know" what has been unknowable;
A belief in deities and spirits;
A belief to know the purpose and meaning of life;
that certain things are right in some religions, yet wrong enough to form another one-- makes theosophy fit nicely in my original post.
Religion has some serious side effects. 🫣😏😳
I sometimes think that I'm the second coming of Christ or the Antichrist since 2020. It seems to be stable and so far I'm able to evaluate those thoughts as religious delusions.
You're describing a lot of youtubers.
Ex-seminarian and PhD candidate in academic Textual Criticism. Slogged through all of the languages and translated extra-canonical texts. I left because it seemed awfully odd to get a doctorate degree designed to continually debunk the BS of that text and be broke to boot. Besides, these delusional folks really get in the way of those of us who really ARE god…. LOL!
I did heal a boy that was mute!!! He could make sounds but could not talk. Two years later, he was able to thank me in speech!!! I said: Don't thank me, thank Issac!!! (I play James Son of Zebadee, and the boy was the donkey wrangler. Issac is a jackass!!! ) A donkey made him frustrated and he spoke!!! LoL 😵💫 No magic here.
This is one of those videos containing such pertinent information that we would be better off if every junior high school kid was exposed to at least once or twice.
At least.
-- God told me he agrees 😂
People only think of an afterlife and seeing loved ones in the short term Sounds good.What will living FOREVER do to you though ? Yikes.!And you can't leave? Scary!!
I don’t believe in an afterlife, but this argument is ridiculously unintelligent. Obviously a perfect brain in a perfect world would not have the issue of depletion of excitement over time. If one is able to be happy and content forever, your objection is invalid. Honestly, I think this argument is just a cope for people who don’t want to feel the brunt reality of oblivion. Given how fast life is going, I could easily see living 500 with zero boredom even with this crappy unoptimized brain.
perfect world?Perfect brain ? And for billions times billions of years ? Naive.
The ideal afterlife is one in which all earthly desires are extinguished, and nothing remains but pure consciousness. That is true liberation
@@rogersacco4624 It is naive, but that wasn’t my argument, dough-head. 🥱
@@rogersacco4624 It is naive, but that wasn’t my argument, now was it? Your smooth brain is doing the same thing hyper religious people do: refusing to think critically and honestly about an alternative perspective.
Unless we know little of this natural existence …. Limited senses , limited knowledge of our ecology and the possibility that more advanced life, a higher sense of awareness and advanced technology coexists . NDE’s and observed strangeness in our space cannot be illusion. There’s more going on , our interpretation of these phenomena is responsible for all this confusion.
*I can't help but make a comparison with the MAGA cult. So many factors overlap.*
I find this “void” concept confusing. If it was a void which produced existential dread it seems obvious that you were not aware of your own presence as the subject. Being terrified limits our awareness. There could not be a void without your witnessing presence. The void is in the self. Not the other way round. Once you know yourself to be there with the void it becomes a profound and generative inquiry. It helps you produce your evolution. This is a wonderful hobby built into the reality for the nihilist. It must be possible to be a happy nihilist. Consciousness is unlimited. God is neither real nor unreal. But they both conspire for your existence and success.
I need to hold on to the belief that my mind is part of the universal mind that is dreaming this whole thing up. Do you think this belief is harmful or delusional?
You may be right, you may be wrong, but the key work you said is *need. If you need something to be true, there's a fear underneath that that we can face directly.
Someone may have asked this so apologies. Can religious psychosis occur apart from a preexisting mental health disorder?
It can be drug induced
When you put three Jesus's in a room you get Santa!!! 😮
What do three Santas in a room make?
Not an atheist and I hate religion however there is other life form in this life . We r not alone. If you think we are alone in this multiverse you have to to extremely arrogant
do you think all diehard christian believers are in delusion ?whats the difference between being wrong and being delusional ?
Don't tell anybody but I am the voice of God
No.....
I am....😅
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1. One believed the others were mentally ill
2. Another believed he was being put in a test by doctors.
Both of those men are the true Jesus.
Subconscious or unconcious?
Or higher consciousness?
Has there ever been a case of a woman being convinced that she was Jesus Christ?
I believe in God, yet what keeps me grounded is that what I do matters if for nothing else to me. My question is why would you try to destroy faith that keeps a person grounded in life. I will admit that fanaticism is an excess of religious fervor. But I was raised that everything in moderation. This has allowed me to still find peace in my faith. That I believe in God. That there is a God. That also brings hope and directs my morals. So there is a lot of truth to what you say, but don't try to play God yourself. Thus destroying healthy faith.
We need a pacifier. The point being made here is to see the pacifier in your mouth so it's not (controlling) delusional.
This woman is not speaking to those with a “healthy faith.” It is very easy for some people to fall into an unhealthy religious fervor, to the point that it destroys them mentally, emotionally, socially, AND spiritually. That is who she is speaking to.
Good for you, you want a cookie 🍪 no one cares you’re not the target audience of this video. Just like the rest of the religious folks you force yourself where you don’t belong & then wanna cry abt how it’s not pleasing to you. disgustingly selfish. If you’re grounded in your faith then why are you here
@@j.robertson9025healthy faith will lead to unhealthy faith in no time. Not much of a difference.
I don't think any faith is healthy, and faith is not a moral virtue. Faith in the correct unbelievable story is not a virtue. We can build better morals, better tools, and better spirituality without God. The reason that I challenge people's grounded faith is because Im so glad someone did that for me. I'm so glad that people challenged my faith so I could face my fears directly and find a life of beauty and freedom on the other side of stories I wanted to be true but arent.
It's interesting that the Bible never once makes any mention of the human brain. Instead it replaces the brain with the word "God".
MICS, Make-believe Imaginary Character Syndrome.
I would add an 11th sign: claiming to know what can't be known; i.e., that God exists or does not exist. The only options here that are not arrogantly stupid is to embrace faith in the face of objective uncertainty or to be an agnostic. If only atheists knew how much they resemble fundamentalists.... Small wonder that so many young people who deconstruct the brittle religion in which they were raised wind up flipping from one smug certainty to another on the opposite side of the same spectrum.
Atheists aren’t claiming to know what cannot be known, they are simply saying that they don’t believe any of the thousands of organized religions that have ever existed because there’s never been any proof.
Athiests ,with rare execption, don't say "There is no god". They withold belief until evidince is presented. That said, everyone can say there is no god in as much as you can say there are no fairies or elves. For all practical purposes they don't exist. Do we know for 100% certain? Of course not but until there is a reason to accept it we act like it doesn't exist. Agnosticism is about knowledge , not belief and of course we are all agnostic in that sense so it's a useless word.
Well this explains political beliefs. EVen when presented with facts, they will do mental gymnastics to explain it away in order to keep their belief intact. And not to sound too machiavellian, but clearly the psychology behind this is being used on Americans.
When you say that you have a master's in theology as if it is a worthy degree, you lose credibility.
Yeshua depicted in the New Testament is not the real man. There was a man named Yeshua in Palestine, a Jew. The New Testament is total myth.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. No one gets to the Father except through him.
trump is the messiah. now that is delusional.
I support Trump, but have never dreamed of claiming he is the "messiah" - saving the country as a whole has zero to do with saving a soul
um I was not expecting F bombs. My 6 and 3 year old are listening. Was that really necessary? That weird phrase wasn't that funny. Then just throw another one in for good measure.
Sounds like paranoid schizophrenia to me.
I suffer from bi polar and get delusions of God. Especially when high so schizophrenia has similarities but not identical
What you call delusion, others call faith. I mean... it's just perspective. You're just labeling Christianity as delusion and then saying, see? Fits into the requirements I made, based off of what it is, to say that it's false. Circular. A weak tactic in my opinion. -An atheist.
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I think you're assigning agency and wants/needs to the brain that it doesn't naturally have. How much actual science of neurology/biology/genetics and others have you studied?
just the claime of a "god" is not justifiable. no one knows what that is. we are an animal like all the others- totally dependent on healthy/diverse ecosystems- which by the way are all under decline.
There's only one sign of religious delusion. You believe in some magical invisible sky fairy
The universe acts as if there is one. One central cause for all things. All things bound by one set of rules. All things made with the same stuff. Nothing is random. All causes are predetermined by the inherent nature of the stuff. Randomness doesn’t exist. Randomness is a failure to comprehend the big picture
It’s interesting that she says religious but she is talking just about being spiritual. She is stuck in there is only the physical reality.
Is “hearing the Holy Spirit” one of these delusions? My parents always talk about how they know what’s right from the Holy Spirit speaking to them. I think they’re delusional narcissists.
They do nice things, but it also seems to benefit them socially and financially.
They ignore the nasty parts such as their anti-LGBTQ pastor even though they tell me, as a gay man, that I can join a gay church. 🤔
Subscribed btw! Loved the video and your knowledgeable discourse on the intersection of religion and psychology. ❤
The greatest delusion is philosophical materialism, which atheism is directly built upon
What does that mean?
@@jenmccolley285 it means materialism is for dummies.
Or dummies couldn't make their way in the material world so they drop out as failures and say " only the afterlife and spirit are important " a comfortable excuse for them to accept their failure to have any success in the real world
They remain in a self sabotage mindset because of the delusion that controls them .
These delusions are a result of bad theology taught by charismatic churches. Feelings and experiences are emphasized over scriptural understanding.
Charismatic churches are increasing in number and teach heresy because scripture is apparently not enough. The understanding of scripture in these churches is terrible. Adding to scripture is common even though we are forbidden from doing so.
The severe penalties for false prophecy are brushed under the rug.
Scripture and prayer is all that is needed to understand God's character, His plans, and our place in creation.
If scripture and prayer were all needed, you wouldn't have so many churches even within one denomination. I find believers to be far more prideful than atheists. Atheists say I'm not convinced. Believers say everyone else is deceived and everyone else's theology is bad by my experience and my theology is right. I don't have the hubris for that.
all theology is bad theology
@@nononsensespirituality The more churches and denominations the better because of redundancy. False teaching
by one big shot is not going to corrupt everything. False teaching is rampant.
Pride for a true believer has been destroyed long ago. God hates pride.
It is the primary issue that creates separation. All I have is scripture and it is available to all.
@@nononsensespiritualityhey... your not spiritual. So don't address me, without consulting me! I'm not religious or athiest.... So who am I fool?
@@gothboschincarnate3931 Agnostic.
Atheist spiritual director talking about religion. Now ive hear it all.
It is stupid. But athiest know everything, like christions.
Thanks for wasting my time with your nonsense.😒
Thanks for wasting ours with your comment 😂
Sounds like reality has challenged someone....😅
_"Thanks for wasting my time with your nonsense."_
Let me guess... you worship a god who used one of his sons as a human sacrifice to himself.