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You are an aspiring religious leader yourself! You claim to have a special relationship or contact with The Divine. And you have even managed to attract a small following.
Marx was right on target with Religion is the Opium of the Masses.'
It is a fact all humans are suffering from an inherent existential pain as driven by neural circuits embedded in the DNA/RNA and manifest subliminally as a psychological complex of various degrees and different manifestations in humans.
It is also true religion really works to resolve as a balm for the psychological angst manifesting subliminally from the depth of the human psyche and brain stem. Religion like opium works immediately to resolve the existential and psychological pains.
Religion really works and that is why some believers are willing to pay $$$ and even sacrifice their life for it.
Thus where it works, I don't think the problem of Religious Trauma Syndrome will arise.
There are those who will adopt religions blindly on faith and will not question religions at all. In such cases, RTS may not arise.
As humanity are evolving and the average enlightenment quotient of the individual is increasing, religious people are becoming more aware of the irrationality and evils associated with religions.
But because religions relieves the inherent existential pains, they are caught between being rational or suffer the existential pains.
To resolve the dissonance, many will sacrifice rationality and opt to keep the inherent existential pains at bay. This is why we find many scientists and rational people insist on being religious and are able to live with contradictions and irrationality.
It is a fact humanity is evolving and many are able to give up or avoid the irrationality and evils of religions. This is because the inherent existential pains are not great and thus they are able to rationalize all the way.
The problem with those can rationalize away with the irrationality and evils associated with religions is when the inherent existential pains manifest actively. In this case, these rational people will turn to real opium and other drugs to suppress the inherent existential pain.
I think Religious Trauma Syndrome [RTS] occurs for those who are in the half-way house of being caught into religion and realizing the irrationality and evils of religions [some]. This happen with those who are born, forced, trapped [note apostasy in Islam is death] or conned into an irrational religion [note Buddhism and some others are not irrational religions].
When one is in a position to get out of religion easily and immediately, RTS is not likely.
Package tours to the ashram are available. Followers are encouraged to bring their own beads. Floor pillows are provided on-site. Souvenir t-shirts are available.
(Church sign: "A lie doesn't become the truth just because people believe it")
Of course they are referring to the Other religions ... that is to say, the False ones. Special pleading abounds for THEIR beliefs, which are true, by faith, Just Because. And given that it's Full Gospel Church (= charismatic), I guarantee that their beliefs are especially untethered from reality.
Look for tab that says: Groupies
Package tours to the ashram are available. Followers are encouraged to bring their own beads. Floor pillows are provided on-site. Souvenir t-shirts are available.
^ you should post that cartoon in the atheist forum joke thread.
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