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 22, 2018 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
Christian Fundamentalism’s evangelistic message is framed as a Holy War Narrative. The biblical call to world evangelism, as interpreted through fundamentalism, is a dictatorial King’s strategic vision of world domination. Holy War is a central metaphor in the...
by Andrew Jasko | Nov 18, 2018 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Christianity claims to promote spirituality. I sought spiritual experiences for twenty-six years in the fundamentalist iterations of Christianity. Yet I only began to experience them after I left Christianity. And I’ve noticed a curious trend: all the spiritual...
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...
by Andrew Jasko | Nov 5, 2018 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse
The Protestant work ethic is the notion that your worth is a function of your hard work: what you produce. This is the mental illness of our time. The idea of hard work put forth in American society is a burden that crushes the broken and disenfranchised and...
by Andrew Jasko | Oct 24, 2018 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Christian fundamentalism criminalizes normal emotional expression and trains people to repress their feelings. Negative emotions aren’t merely unpleasant (which is bad enough); they become crimes of emotion against god. Emotion crimes come packaged with fear of...
