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A psychological approch to how religion works
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A psychological approch to how religion works
Repentance is basically the way of securing the delusion. Oddly enough it’s about the same in parallel, to the final initiations used in cults. The really terrible thing about original sin is how it effects the real self and the ideal self. It’s a belief system that says this:

My ideal self is to be as good in god’s eyes as possible: perfection
My real self is a terrible incurable sinner. Like the amazing graze goes: a wretch.
I also believe that I can never in my life time achieve my ideal self: frustration

If I can make you think with your emotions, and not your mind, I can control you. What a better way to make a person think with their emotions than to convince them that about this idea of original sin; to make the real self and ideal self as far apart as possible, to the point that they opposite each other. The real and ideal self being far apart is a psychological explanation for what causes frustration, hence depression and anger. To get people to think with their emotions, you fuel the emotions. Friedrich Nietzsche first proposed that religion exploits human emotions. I’m explaining how it does it. Although this of course differs depending on if an individual believe it, and how deeply they believe it. In this sense Religion functions like a sociopathic-ideology.
Jesus said he would come back soon. So over 2000 years isn’t long enough to call his bluff? Of course that’s assuming he existed.
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A psychological approch to how religion works - by Gregoriouse - February 14, 2011 at 11:15 pm
RE: A psychological approch to how religion works - by ozgoat - February 16, 2011 at 5:21 pm

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