There is an explanation to the religious mindset. -It has a very limited access to thought.
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What happens in the mind of a person who believes? What happens in the minds of a population who believes?
Several criteria have to be fulfilled by the believer.
- Accepting that there is an imaginary power that only has your best in mind, but never tells you in advance what that is. -The same imaginary power that care for you does not give a damn about the hungry, sick, or poor. And that is OK.
2. Accepting that not understanding is OK and expected of you. -In order to comply to this criteria, you cannot ask questions, nor can you express any critical thinking at all.
3. Accepting that logic and reason, the core of all science, are the enemy of all faiths. –Science has proven religions wrong so many time we have lost count. Religion has never, not once, done the opposite.
4. Accepting that Jesus is the personification of God. -This means that God impregnated Maria, through rape, with himself. God then killed himself on the cross, only to resurrect three days later, went back to Heaven and sat down on his own right side. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
5. Accepting that an unknown uncommunicative and deaf-mute power is in charge of everything in your life. -This power gave you life and will also be the one taking it away from you one day. You don’t, however, know when or how that last moment will occur. This criteria plants fear of death in you and you are obligated to appreciate that fear as a good feat, and praise its existence. The entire idea is morbid.
6. Accepting that other humans will obligate you to follow what they tell and teach. -I.e. accepting that they, as believers in the same imaginary deity as you, are better called to obligate you to comply to the religion than you are. If you neglect to do what they tell you will be severely punished.
7. Accept that there is a better place than Earth, called Heaven. A place so good you will never want to leave. –In Heaven you will live in peace and harmony. Here you are obligated to admire and praise your God, for eternity. However, you cannot leave if you after some time find this life with constant praise boring. Heaven, just as Hell, is a prison. The belief in an afterlife and Heaven is the admiration of a death cult. It is morbid.
8. Accepting the concept of a Heaven or a Hell. If you are good while living Heaven awaits you. If you are bad while living, Hell will be your final destination. –However, if you’re the bad one you can always ask for forgiveness, and Heaven will be you granted.
This means that Hitler, Pol-Pot, rapists, child abusers, murderers, are in Heaven if they asked for forgiveness. But as my loving and friendly grandmother never was a believer she is in Hell together with most scientists who’s ever lived. Heaven or Hell, what bullshit death cult is this?
9. Accepting that you will be judged after your deity has put you to death. -No matter what you do while living, or say when dead, your forthcoming judgment will occur. No matter the judgment placed on you, you will either be forced to end up praising a God, or live in pain, for the rest of eternity. You have no third option; you cannot leave either of them. Believing in this is the wish to be an intellectual slave.
10. Accepting the power of a whimsical dictatorship of whom you have no influence. -This dictatorship will punish you for your actions, for thinking the wrong thoughts, and for dreaming the wrong dreams while you sleep. This dictatorship demands full worship and control your thoughts, your mind, and your actions, at all times. It is the worship of a tyrant.
11. Accepting the above is the full enslavement of the human mind. It is the full opposite of physical and intellectual freedom. It is the full opposite of the freedom of thought for the human mind. Accepting the above is the worst that can be accomplished for the human intellect.
12. For women it is even worse than so far described. In all religions women are secondary. Men is the norm; men are the favored gender. -All religions have the same bottom line. It is to fully oppress women in order to grant men access to female genitals at all times to masturbate within. Any woman accepting and supporting this oppression is an enemy to her sisters and her own gender.
Accepting the above will, one way or the other, influence everything you do or think. It will create a state of mind that will not think freely, a mind that will accept whatever said, no matter how ridiculous or wrong it is.
It will create a gullible personality that will not form opinions. A mind that can be fooled into accepting and believing in whatever stupidity presented no matter how ridiculous or morally wrong it is.
When implemented on a population it will accomplish a state of full power to the ones in power. It is a great tool for full control of the human being.
In order to be successful with this destructive indoctrination and intellectual pollution religions have to engage in all the above at a very early age of man. Most successful are the religions who starts with infants as infants have not yet reached the age of reason.
Least successful are religions who try to implement their world views on adults. Here the success rate is so low it is almost invincible.
Religions are nothing but an insult to the human intelligence. Religion is chloroform in print.
Now, what happens to the person who decides to abandon the indoctrinated religion?
If the religion is Islam s/he might face the death penalty, as it is Islam’s consequence for apostasy. This does not exist in practiced Christianity.
No matter the religion abandoned, the intellectual freedom that follows for the apostate is often breathtakingly surprising. The mental freedom of not having a deaf-mute uncommunicative deity in charge is never more appreciated.
Apostasy is the total freedom of the human mind and intellect.