The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism

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His words were so prophetic.
 
Theocracy is possibly the worst kind of tyranny.

The Mike Pence types of the world, exactly the same as the Islamic theocrats, are a cancer on humanity itself.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Theocracy is possibly the worst kind of tyranny.

The Mike Pence types of the world, exactly the same as the Islamic theocrats, are a cancer on humanity itself.
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I'm not aware of anyone in America who wants a Theocracy. What we DO want is for our elected officials to obey the Constitution. Is that too much to ask?
 
The psychology of Christian Fundamentalism?
How about the physiology of Christian Fundamentalism, at least as practiced in the United States?

It's brain damage--a catastrophic birth defect largely blamable on the absence of sufficient abortions.

Even in enlightened Massachusetts, we have people like this. You can't have a civilized conversation on any subject without them bringing their perverse version of religion into it.

My buddy's sister-in-law is an old broad who tries to save my soul every time I run into her at a gathering at his house.

I'll let Dr. Scholls save my soles.....thank you just the same.
 
guno said:
The need to sustain complex connections at the level of thought (not fact) through the evolution of mental abilities that are necessarily connected with developing all the metaphoric resources of language. The literal in contrast puts an end to thought. It offers the mind a way to shut down, to reify itself. It thereby exorcises the greatest fear: interpretation and its inevitable result, the conflict of interpretations and with it the terror of being forever bereft of dogmatic certitudes. A metaphor is the lighting flash of an intelligence that sees, as Aristotle asserts, connections that can only be sustained by a thought that thereby liberates itself from the immediate.

Literalism is the attempt to arrest all of this before it takes hold. It’s innermost necessity is the resistance to metaphor. For with metaphor one enters a world that has the power to unravel the literal mind. Let me offer one example. “There is no God and Mary is his mother.” In this great aphorism Santayana asserts an ontological impossibility and a psychological necessity. I once tried it out on some fundamentalist friends. They were at first puzzled by the unintelligibility of the statement then amazed that Santayana and I were so dumb we couldn’t see the contradiction. Finally the light went on, almost in chorus, the literalist deconstruction of the statement: “If he wasn’t a God how could she be a mother?” All attempts to suggest that the statement wasn’t meant to be taken literally only produced further confusion then frustration then anger. Santayana’s statement made no sense precisely because it was a koan, a paradox intended to produce reflection, even introspection. It was there I suggested that one would find the key to its meaning; not in the assertion that its meaningless constituted evidence that Santayana was perverse or mentally unbalanced. We were, of course, talking at irretrievable cross-purposes with no way to bridge the gulf between us. Which was, of course, the point of the exercise.

Literalism is the first line of defense of a mind that wants to put itself to sleep. A sensibility that like Nietzsche’s last man can only blink in blank incomprehension at anything that can’t be immediately understood. It is the great protection against a world teeming with complexities.



https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/01/08/the-psychology-of-christian-fundamentalism/
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:laugh: Why do secular humanists always attempt to define a subject they self confess to knowing nothing about.....or they would accept the faith? Why should any creature take advise from a creature that denies CREATION? Its simply a matter of logic and reason in a prima facie manner. FYI: Psychology is not really an objective science.....its subjective to HELL AND BACK. ;) Unless you are making the claim of having the ability to read the thought process of another human being. Its not like humans have ever revealed a capacity for DECEPTION. Its just another elitist smart ass attempting to prove to every one just how smart they are...…………… Truth: Some of the most evil psychopaths in history have the ability to APPEAR PERFECTLY NORMAL. If Psychology were indeed a viable form of science.....would that science not preclude the crimes of psychopaths from existing in the first place? Ain't Logic a hell of a thing?

Conclusion: Physician first demonstrate the ability to heal they self before casting stones within a glass dwelling.
 
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Phantasmal said:
1 Corinthians 2:11

I think Billy Graham worshipped Mammon, I don’t think his an authority, he became rich on Jesus.
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Even the Devil quotes Scripture. You're not fooling anyone. Guno is a confirmed liar. He does nothing but lie. God hates him. It says so, right in the Bible. He causes trouble every chance he gets. With the possible exception of being a murderer, he is everything God hates.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
You lost me at "creation," Ralph.

Why accept science when you can fall for a crazy story instead?
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Exactly: :laugh: Perhaps you were never CREATED. If not explain the existence of life in an OBJECTIVE manner via a presentation of the Scientific Method. Or better yet.....just demonstrate through the Scientific Method how you naturally came to be from STAR DUST. No subjective theories.....just FACTS of SCIENCE. Objective through Observation, reproducible through experimentation that reveals consistency throughout the methodology. Just show us the experiment that brings about life void of creation.
 
Grugore said:
Even the Devil quotes Scripture. Your not fooling anyone. Guno is a confirmed liar. He does nothing but lie. God hates him. It says so, right in the Bible. He causes trouble every chance he gets. With the possible exception of being a murderer, he is everything God hates.
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Lol, I doubt it, but you just keep thinking you know the mind of God, it’s amusing.
 
Life, like everything in the universe, including the universe itself, is the random confluence of sub-atomic particles.

Where did the particles come from?

That's unknowable, but if you want to credit your god, Ralph, that's as good a guess as any. Just be aware that if god created the particles, he/she didn't show any interest in them afterwards. That's knowable by casual observation alone.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Life, like everything in the universe, including the universe itself, is the random confluence of sub-atomic particles.

Where did the particles come from?

That's unknowable, but if you want to credit your god, Ralph, that's as good a guess as any. Just be aware that if god created the particles, he/she didn't show any interest in them afterwards. That's knowable by casual observation alone.
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Right.....just use the Scientific Method to make a fact of your OPINION. Then you have the inherent right to stick your nose up the assholes of other human beings. No one can argue with a FACT OF SCIENCE. ;)


As I demonstrated MY FAITH is constructed upon PRIMA FACIE truths......it is YOU that claims to be working with science actual but just self confessed to something being UNKNOWABLE. Thus that unknown must be reasoned and logical truth....i.e., a from of PHILOSOPHY not science.

That reminds me of a certain Biblical Passage: They profess to be wise but became FOOLS in their arrogance. Paraphrased. God does not exist in prima facie manner but ALEINS DO? Really?
 
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Phantasmal said:
Lol, I doubt it, but you just keep thinking you know the mind of God, it’s amusing.
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And you keep right on doubting. I know exactly where it will lead you. So do you, if you would just simply let go of your pride and open your eyes. You will stand before God, one day, and be judged. I do not envy you the experience.
 
Grugore said:
And you keep right on doubting. I know exactly where it will lead you. So do you, if you would just simply let go of your pride and open your eyes. You will stand before God, one day, and be judged. I do not envy you the experience.
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Its very kind of you to be worried about me, but perhaps be more concerned about yourself for scriptures is full of examples of Jesus telling those who thought as you did, Pharisees, etc, that the last shall be first and the first last.
 
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