Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?

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Thanks very much for sharing all your thoughts with us Emjay

I agree, "calling out bullshit" at every opportunity is probably an excellent approach for you to take. I have similar problems with other kinds of irrational thoughts which slither into my mind and build themselves up. If I don't address and smash them as soon as they get there, they feed on my anxiety and grow in stature. I then develop a mental block about them, which remains until I take some sort of action to demonstrate to myself the thoughts aren't true. Taking the action "is easy" in theory, but the mental block makes me scared to take it.

Maybe a bit of literally mocking "God" and "Jesus" is in order, telling them to fuck off out loud. Tell them they're a load of made up nonsense. Really lay into them, and observe absolutely nothing happening in response, contrary to what the bible "teaches" us. God went around incinerating people for such crimes. I've found vocalizing my problems to myself like this can really help, it breaks the internal feedback loop inside my head.

Regarding hell, how about this:

"Oh you're a real big man, God. You're apparently so powerful and wonderful, yet you're so fucking insecure about people liking you that you have to go around threatening your own creation with torture! Pick on someone your own size, you overgrown toddler. Why don't you come down here and face me, huh? You fucking coward! Pathetic! That's what I thought. You have no power at all. You just have brainwashed people doing your bidding."