It is enough for Christianity to be taken fanatically and turn into a sect.
However, it is quite important to specify what I mean by the term sect:
- A sect is a religious community that manipulates and enslaves its members.
- creates a slavish dependence of members on the religion/sect
- the dependence of members on spiritual leaders, although there is no rule that the leader cultivates a cult of personality. The leader suffers from a savior complex, believing they are indispensable to society and that they are saving believers from damnation, saving the world from damnation and hellfire.
- a member of a sect, despite being enslaved, does not realize their enslavement and, on the contrary, claims that the sect makes them happy. (A religious fanatic could lecture you for a long time about how religion does not enslave them, makes them free, how it does not restrict them, but a Jehovah's Witness could tell you the same thing)
- It is easy to join a sect/religion, but it is practically impossible to leave. More information on this topic can be found in the subtitle "What does a religious fanatic mean by 'seeking the truth'?"
- An attribute of a sect (or a fanatical form of religion) is the willingness of its members to spend a disproportionately large amount of time and energy practicing religion, which significantly enslaves their lives (religious events, private prayers, reading literature). A religious fanatic knows no rest; they constantly work for religion.
As a philosopher who has long been intensely engaged in a critical view of religion, I do not see much difference between a sect and a religion. In fact, I would call Christianity (or Christian communities characterized by fanaticism) far more dangerous than sects. Christianity, as a huge religion with a large number of followers, has a much stronger and more manipulative egregore than Jehovah's Witnesses, who are a small religious group. This egregore can manipulate not only the minds of members but also non-members of the religion who cannot look at Christianity more objectively, that is, more critically.
A great danger is also that society views Christians very incorrectly. The thought worlds of religious and non-religious people are too separate, and secular people do not understand the seriousness of how religion can harm and enslave a person. The correct societal view of fanatical people is the realization that they are miserable, enslaved people who need help. I would consider psychological and psychotherapeutic centers that would help people get out of the vicious circle of religious slavery to be very important.
What is the slavery of religion?
- Christians themselves do not realize that by professing their religion, they are primarily harming themselves. They hurt themselves and others. As people with the ability of astral travel say, the egregore of religion sucks energy from a person, tunes them to bad energies, which also materializes in the fate that a Christian has more suffering in life than a non-Christian. Every person is an energy emitter, whether of "positive" or "negative" energy. A religious fanatic thus harms others with their radiation. Without religion, there would be significantly less suffering on this planet.
- Various parasitic demonic beings are closely connected with the egregore of the Christian concept of God. Christians, believing they are communicating with God, are in fact communicating with demonic beings. This fact is not only confirmed by people with the ability of astral travel, but I have witnessed dozens to hundreds of very shocking examples of how religious fanatics telepathically received information that commanded them to help someone, but in reality, they maliciously harmed other people, which was contrary to Christian teaching. That feeling when, in your ignorance, you think you are helping someone tremendously, but you don't realize you are hurting them.
- Christianity enslaves man from a much more rational point of view. A religious fanatic can sacrifice an extreme amount of time to experience religion, to masses and other religious events, to prayers, to reading meaningless religious literature, to listening to crazy religious preachers on the internet, to listening to religious programs on Christian radio and television, and so on. Religion is a huge interference with human freedom, even from the perspective of lost time. In old age, on his deathbed, a Christian can say: "What a fool I was to waste my whole life, precious time on religious nonsense?". Religion is like a drug and an addiction that enslaves a Christian and he cannot exist without it. This drug completely destroys the Christian, but the religious fanatic is so manipulated that he constantly lies to himself about how religion is doing him good.
- A religious fanatic is willing to devote a huge amount of time and energy to a religion that does not help them in life at all, but a Christian constantly lies to themselves and pretends that it helps them because they are a manipulated, programmed slave who no longer has free will. It is a particularly sad sight to see some of my relatives, who are around 70 years old, intelligent people with university education, but their brains are so extremely washed that they have not come to their senses even in old age, they have not realized that religion gives them nothing. Especially in old age, one should keep their face, maintain a certain human dignity. If a person, even after 70 years, does not slow down their religious fanaticism at all and is still the same fanatic as 35 years ago, then their human dignity drops to the level of a patient with Down syndrome. Sometimes I find a person with Down syndrome far more intelligent than a totally, irreversibly mentally damaged 70-year-old person with a university education who does nothing but stuff religious crap into themselves in all their free time.
- From the perspective of the psychology of the future, Christianity objectively manipulates people and deprives them of free will . Many secular non-religious people are very mistaken when they consider religion to be a harmless and innocent thing. Unfortunately, this is not the case. It is very easy to enter a fanatical Christian community, but practically impossible to leave. This is mainly known in sects, but we forget that exactly the same problem exists in Christianity, where it is greatly underestimated. A Christian will tell you that they attend religious events completely freely, that they have acquired their faith completely freely. The same will be told to you by a member of any other sect. However, we forget that there is practically no difference between Christianity and a sect. Paradoxically, Christianity has a far stronger and far more manipulative egregore than smaller sects. And I'm not even talking about various sophisticated, refined evangelization methods (for example, testimonies).
Pillars of Christianity. What motivates a Christian the most to be a religious fanatic?
There are two basic pillars of Christian motivation:
- " Because of God": a Christian, by professing their religion, believes that by practicing their religion they are creating a relationship with God. They believe that through Christian prayers they can ask the Lord for help and that He will help them. But here we encounter a societal problem, not just a Christian one. The societal discussion has been reduced to only two alternatives: either the Christian idea of God exists, or God does not exist. However, both options are lies; the correct one is the third option. God does exist, but He is radically different from the Christian idea of God. The real God certainly does not require a person to observe any religious rules or dogmas, does not command a person to restrict sexuality, does not require a person to believe in religious dogmas, and does not require a person to observe various commands and prohibitions.
- A religious fanatic has never asked themselves whether the true God is about something completely different. At most, they might ask themselves a few times in their life whether God exists or not.
- It is interesting to discuss with a religious fanatic the topic of whether the true God could be something completely different from the religious idea . It would be wonderful if a religious fanatic wanted to be helped, wanted to discuss, and wanted to think. The discussion will end with the religious fanatic having a mental breakdown; they are unwilling to consider such a question, they answer you completely off-topic, and they do everything to forget such a question, they do everything to erase this question from their memory as soon as possible. By the way, this is a perfect topic for psychological-sociological research: to ask some religious fanatics if they admit that there can be a different idea of God than the Christian one, and I guarantee you that 95% of the answers will be off-topic. No one will answer your question directly. It is clear evidence of the psychopathology of Christianity. (By the way, such a survey is an excellent topic for psychology or sociology doctoral students, as well as for employees of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. I am willing to provide consulting services for such research, and that is selflessly.)
- When a Christian hears a critical argument against religion , a strong program of forgetting and not thinking/reflecting as quickly as possible is immediately activated in them. A Christian does everything to erase the critical argument against religion from their memory. If you have no critical argument in mind, then you don't have to think. From the evasive answers to critical arguments against religion, it can be deduced that Christians are not willing to think and try to forget as quickly as possible.
- A person who is in prison is not free. However, a Christian whose mind is imprisoned, whose programs are forbidden by religion to think, is not free either. Religion totally deprives of freedom. While a prisoner has an imprisoned body, a Christian has an imprisoned mind. A prisoner is actually freer than a Christian.
- " Because of the afterlife " : the huge motivation for a Christian to become fanatical to the point of insanity is the belief in the afterlife. The more I pray, the more often I go to mass and other religious events, the more religious literature I read, the more time and energy I spend on religion, the more God will reward me in the other world. The reality is that life after death does exist, but after death, something completely different awaits a person than what Christianity describes. Religion is probably the last thing that will help a person after death.
- Again, there is a society-wide problem that, in connection with the death of the physical body, the philosophical discussion has narrowed down to the philosophy of materialism or the religious idea of what will happen after death. Somehow we forget that there may be a third option.
- People with the ability of astral travel claim that religious people often have a mental breakdown after death because they realize that religion has lied to them and that the enormous amount of energy and time they invested in religion was completely useless. They realize that they have lost an entire incarnation, an entire life, on religious bullshit.
What does a religious fanatic think about the term "seeking the truth"? The power of religious manipulation
Religious fanatics love to invoke the concept of truth, claiming to honestly seek it. However, when it comes down to it, it turns out that by "seeking truth," they mean reading conservative Catholic literature. I also cannot understand religious fanatics in that they have a passionate, slavish dependence on reading religious literature, from which they learn nothing new; it only confirms their conviction of how correct it is. A conservative also has a problem reading any literature that comes from a liberal theologian who looks at the world with at least a somewhat open mind and common sense.
I also don't know any Christian who would have any literature at home other than Christian philosophy (for example, esotericism). More here https://filozofia.nett.to/krestanstvo/sk/zaklad-krestanskej-viery-je-strach-strach-sa-co-i-len-dotknut-inej-literatury-ako-ta-krestanska
The manipulation of religion is absolutely admirable, there is a complete unwillingness and inability to educate oneself in any way and to accept new information. Confirming one's faith by reading Christian literature, where only existing religious dogmas are confirmed, is neither education nor the acceptance of new information.
The power of manipulation of religion compared to political opinion: political opinion, despite the fact that political propaganda can be very strong, people can usually change. Compared to religion where it is an extremely rare phenomenon
Religion as a disease/illness and treatment
- While a psychiatric diagnosis mostly means a brain disorder, religious fanaticism means a disease of the soul. Energetically weakened people with weaker protection are susceptible to religious fanaticism.
- Waking up a Catholic is extremely difficult because they perceive you as their greatest enemy, a messenger of Satan, when you try to help them. Moreover, an unpleasant truth is very difficult for a religious fanatic to hear.
- However, even a religious fanatic should realize that if they accept the unpleasant truth, they can be freed and born a second time. Life is hard enough without a person making it even harder with religious nonsense.
Other general information about religion
- One should not participate in religious activities, not even for fun, not even as a joke. The manipulative programs of religion are too strong. It is easy to enter religion, but difficult to leave.
- A religious fanatic has such an extremely and irreversibly damaged and deformed personality due to religion that it takes several incarnations, several lives on this planet, to cleanse themselves and return to normal. (And often, very educated people who cannot excuse themselves by ignorance are subject to religious fanaticism).
- Religion as a karmic burden : every human being is an energy emitter. Every human being pulls society either up or down energetically. A religious fanatic, by constantly tuning into negative energies, causes society as much suffering as a mass murderer. I realize that not everyone has an understanding of this view, but it is so. If a religious fanatic has heard the truth about religion and yet rejected this information and defended himself against it as much as he could, he cannot even excuse himself by ignorance. He bears full karmic responsibility for his actions.
- Scandal: Ministers Krajčí and Heger as religious fanatics . People love to curse these two gentlemen. Yes, it's true, crazy religious fanatics don't belong in politics. However, I look at this problem radically differently. Society doesn't realize why these two people actually became ministers. The problem is that Christian sects have a sufficiently large number of their members, a significant proportion of the population has fallen victim to sects, that it's enough for even such madmen to get into politics. People are directing their anger in the wrong direction. These two ministers are not the problem. The problem is the excessive number of sects that are spreading like cancer.