by Andrew Jasko | Feb 27, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
The Bible promotes a political strategy of division by othering everyone outside of the religion. Through divisive labeling, my neighbor morphs from a fellow human being into a distant other, the sinner, to whom I, the saint, no longer can relate with empathy: an...
by Andrew Jasko | Feb 11, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
The worldviews of biblical religiosity and materialistic isolationism arise from the psychological survival technique of splitting. When faced with overwhelming experiences, our psyche protects us by splitting the personality into two parts: the good me and the bad...
by Andrew Jasko | Jan 26, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Sexuality
Sexual violence is commonplace in the biblical narrative. It is perhaps most X-rated in Jesus’s recommendations for mutilation of the male anatomy in castration and emasculation. As a young boy, I was terrified when I heard Jesus’s suggestions that I mutilate myself...
by Andrew Jasko | Jan 7, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Western religions have made narcissism a virtue through the worship of God, who bears all the markers of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Narcissism is a painful condition of low self-esteem masked by a shallow presentation of grandiose confidence. Through their...
by Andrew Jasko | Dec 18, 2018 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Fundamentalist religion works on the psyche like mental illness. It functions by creating dysfunctional personality structures that sort of get you by, but also produce enormous suffering. Anxiety is created by messages of fear and judgment, psychosis (not being able...
by Andrew Jasko | Nov 9, 2018 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Fundamentalist religiosity often looks like a severely traumatized individual trying to resolve his trauma in unhealthy ways. Fundamentalist Christianity attempts to resolve the trauma of humanity suffering by re-enacting it on other people in the vengeance of divine...
