The-Prehistoric-Multicultural-Settlement-in-Slovakia-Wiedermann What this article will be about: Very strong and rational arguments that Christianity is harmful. Scientific psychological evidence. It will not be about subjective philosophical arguments but about objective scientific argumentation.
Furthermore, I will supplement the article with my philosophical perspective, which will further strengthen the arguments against Christianity.
I was inspired to write this article by a sermon from a liberal Catholic Indian preacher and monk, which I came across purely by chance. Many theologians would consider his sermon heretical, but I realized that the preacher had essentially summarized the biggest problem of Christianity in an excellent and apt way.
In psychological literature, we find a lot about how important it is to love oneself, which is a great truth. Of course, I mean a healthy love for oneself, not egoism, narcissism, and the like. If a person does not love themselves, which, by the way, is also the main problem of Christians, then various psychological problems and complexes arise from it.
The basis of the Christian faith is not to love oneself. Being a Christian is extremely mentally demanding and stressful.
The basis of Christian teaching is original sin. According to Christian teaching, baptism does not remove original sin and only ensures that the believer has at least some chance of being saved, which means not going to hell after death to be tortured for an infinitely long time. Christians believe in a God who is angry with them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because they inherited original sin from Adam. Therefore, Christians face very unpleasant psychological pressure and stress.
Atheists, or secular people, are far from having to face such unpleasant psychological pressures as devoutly practicing Christians, or in other words, religious fanatics or fundamentalists.
Because Christians constantly have to think about their angry God because of original sin, they cannot even like themselves. The very belief in original sin means that a person considers themselves to be dirt and cannot love themselves.
Although religion deceives, manipulates, and programs Christians to believe in a loving God, that is just a verbal phrase. When we look at the Christian religion in more detail, there can be no talk of a loving God.
Christians claim that a loving Jesus died for me to save me. In practice, however, this means that Jesus' death only gives some chance of being saved. Also, Jesus' martyrdom, from a psychological point of view, is not associated with anything positive for Christians, and this concept enslaves them even more psychologically. They feel heavily indebted to God. And the feeling of being constantly indebted to someone is psychologically extremely negative. You constantly feel that you have to reciprocate God's love, return it, because you are a debtor. Strongly practicing Christians try to return love and show love to God by going to church every day and praying for a long time every day, thus losing a huge amount of precious time and energy. Christians care too much about giving as much love, attention, and energy to God as possible, but they forget about self-love. A Christian is just an ordinary slave who serves God and gives him his energy and time.
The liberal preacher also spoke about another psychologically dangerous principle in Christianity. He claimed that Christians go to church every day and pray for a long time every day, thus losing a huge amount of precious time and energy just to be able to feel that their God loves them. And he himself very sharply criticized this approach to faith, which is practiced by 99% of Christians. Being a Christian is psychologically completely self-destructive. The preacher emphasized that "God loves you automatically, even with your mistakes, and you don't have to fight for his love."
I myself am a former Christian and grew up in a strongly religious and fanatical environment. From my own experience, I can confirm that, percentage-wise, you will find incomparably more individuals with complexes and very problematic personalities among devout Christians than among secular people. This only confirms that Christianity psychologically harms people.
We all have some psychological complexes. But Christianity radically strengthens and worsens psychological complexes and various psychological injuries.
In psychology, the phrase "inferiority complex" is well-known. We can find a lot of professional psychological literature on this topic. Christianity itself causes psychological damage to a person's inferiority complex, if only because of the belief in original sin.
I can also say from my own experience that devout Christians are no better ethically than the average secular person. Christianity psychologically enslaves a person, strengthens psychological complexes in a person, and worsens an unpleasant nature, which causes the average Christian to be either the same or mostly worse than a secular person.
And we see it in politics, that politicians who are Christian fundamentalists are the biggest disgust one can imagine, and that is no coincidence. Just as examples, MP Záborská does nothing else in parliament but divide society by fighting against abortions, MP Vašečka expressed hatred towards the LGBT community and compared them to perverted people, MP Štefan Kuffa compared LGBT people to the fact that they are not even human. Former Prime Minister Heger, although he had detailed information about the insane corruption happening at the Ministry of Environment, not only tolerated Budaj but even proactively supported him.
Even if we were to assume that Christians are not worse but are equally good at observing ethical principles, it is still not right, because religion strongly commands a religious fanatic to behave ethically, but no one and nothing commands a secular person to do so.
And from my own experience, I can say that you won't find as many Pharisees who preach water and drink wine as you will among religious fanatics in any other society.
Does religion have any positives at all? A comparison of religion and an advanced spiritual system
I'll tell you from my own experience how I see it. Religion doesn't help a person at all, because believers tune into a false idea of God, into bad energies, into an egregore.For that, religion works very well as black magic.
Just as a side note, Christians do not hide the fact that they pray for politicians so that God controls their minds, "so that God changes them", which is a form of black magic to control and manipulate the free will of a politician . And it works perfectly.
The Church has an unimaginably great power, it is probably the strongest lobbying group and it always manages to get incomparably more benefits, advantages and privileges from politicians than the majority secular Slovak society would wish for.
And just as a side note, churches are probably the only state organizations that have only benefits and rights from the state, but no obligations or regulations. All other areas of social life are extremely strictly regulated by law, in contrast to the church.
From my own experience, I can confirm that when I got rid of religion, I also got rid of several psychological complexes. The positive change in this area was significant.
Religious prayers drain a person's energy. But even if prayer is not pleasant for Christians, they are so manipulated that they don't mind or they rely on the fact that after death, God will reward them for their sacrifice.
On the contrary, when I tune into the real God, not a religious idea, within an advanced spiritual system, I feel my energy being recharged. If I ask for help from either the "real God" or positive powerful beings from higher dimensions, I actually receive help. I have this confirmed both experimentally and statistically, that it really works. In periods when I ask or do not ask for help, there are radical differences in how I manage to solve various problems, which was far from the case when practicing religion. The same applies to telepathic communication when I ask for advice and information on how to solve a given problem or challenge. Getting valuable advice from the universe is a significant benefit that was not present when practicing religion.
My spiritual system is not empty esoteric phrases. I do not consider myself an esotericist. For me, spirituality is primarily a successful practice.
Scientific evidence of the harmfulness of Christianity from the scientific fields of archaeology and anthropology