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 29, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Hell exists as a real place of torture in the minds of those who feed its imaginary fires through their fear. It is only those who believe in hellfire religion who suffer from the real hell, and those escaping hell religion who are still in recovery from hellfire...
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 20, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
The mass killings and sexual violence committed by dogmatic biblical religions are a small evil. The hidden dragon is the enslavement of the human race. Millions of lives to the slaughter, commanded by the Holy Word of God, weigh up as sawdust on the cosmic scales in...
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...
