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MarkostheGnostic said:

I consider myself to be Christian, but I am certainly not the two-dimensional sort of Christian who is called 'Fundamentalist' or 'Evangelical.' Such individuals usually seem to have a combination of extraverted personality type (which gloms onto non-inner-directed Christian 'directions'), an often pathological need for 'perfection' (which is enacted through rigid, often Obsessive-Compulsive moral imperatives), and a
Superiority Complex and power motive which is frequently confounded with the Holy Spirit (i.e., the Holy Spirit 'saves' people, not loud-mouthed evangelists).

It seems pretty obvious that this brand of Christian is here to 'save' the sinners that populate this site. However, we are ALL sinners according to the wretched doctrine of Original Sin (penned by Augustine, not Biblical authors btw). So the Superiority Complex operates (as complexes do) in an autonomous way which creates a psychological 'blind spot.' In other words, everyone else is a sinner, but the evangelizer experiences him/herself in a superior state of being (e.g., 'saved,' 'washed in the blood of the lamb,' etc.). While such a person will admit to being a sinner if asked, it is lip-service because the affect underlying the humble admission is rooted in the superiority complex or the Messianic Complex (which also feels superior). Then, to make matters even worse, Schizophrenics, Paranoid Type, post here, speaking in the first person because their Complex has usurped their personality, and they want Shroomerites to think that very God is talking through them. Check it out!

What blows my mind is that I get accused of using "psycho-babble" by these types of professing Christians when in fact, I am not babbling at all. I am speaking from years of analytical education and training. And what's worse is that more people do not question the underlying psychology of people who adopt these forms of religion with which they go out to assail and assault humanity.


Mental illness very often takes a religious form. Nazism was a religious movement and a whole nation went mad. Muslim suicide bombers are violently insane, believing propagandized delusions about perpetual sexual intercourse with forever young celestial virgins who have translucent skin and ruby marrow in their pearlescent bones. Japanese Kamakazi suicide bombers were taught that just by reciting "Nama Amida Butsu" - In the Name of Amida Buddha - the Buddha of Infinite Light, mass killing and their own death would result in arrival in the Buddhist 'Pure Land.' Fundamentalist Christians have their own delusions based on symbols found in Revelations. Why delusions? Because of Transcendental conditions, 1 Corinthians 2:9 says: "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him," which means incomprehensible, for the simpletons who maintain delusions about 'golden roads' or 'lakes of fire.' We must not become angry with the delusional, while at the same time we must be fully cognizant that they are quite dangerous to life and limb, and enemies of Freedom on every level.

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For the record, I think this is an excellent analysis of the fundamentalist Christians that preach here. I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

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spiritualemerg said:
In the opening statement we see the firm establishment of superiority and the introduction of a separation into two groups: Us and Them.  The "Us" group is the community itself (comprised of many); the "Them" group is that which is outside of the community and has been perceived to be a threat.  It is comprised of one -- Demotriton.  Therefore, we also see a gross imbalance in the power between the two groups. 

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This matter has already been addressed to a certain degree.  Essentially, if someone who is not one of the group (a Them) tries to "save" people, that's perceived as bad.  If someone who is part of the group (an Us) tries to save people, that's perceived as good, acceptable, even admirable.

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...I'm not surprised this degree of bias still exists to such an unconscious degree but one would like to think that a Clinical Psychologist was slightly more in tune.

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More personalisms.

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The only thing this statement lacks is a pulpit.

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In short, "be afwaid, be vewy afwaid" because the bad guys are out there and one must be ever viligant and watchful of the boogeyman!  It is precisely this kind of thinking that has killed more than 3000 American soldiers, up to 600,000 Iraqi citizens, and god only knows how many Afghanis -- I don't think anyone's been keeping count.

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