by Andrew Jasko | Jun 27, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
The religious differences of the world could be resolved with the one true confession of faith: “I don’t know.” I don’t know who I am or the ultimate nature of reality. My spirituality is an open question I’m living into, and I’m avoiding the temptation to need all...
by Andrew Jasko | Jun 24, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Secular Humanism, Spirituality
“God” must speak blasphemy to every truth seeker, total self-annihilatory heresy, in order to remain distinct from our ideas. God rages against your most treasured notions of God: your Jesus, your Buddha, your Muhammad, your Scientism, and must destroy God in these...
by Andrew Jasko | May 30, 2019 | Nondual Theology and Philosophy, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Many forms of Christianity do not resemble the spirituality Jesus taught. The teachings of Jesus and the Bible may require his followers to transform their Christian religious institutions in order to become Christians (lit. “followers of Christ”) because Christianity...
by Andrew Jasko | May 10, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
Martyrdom is an ideology that weaponizes its victim to conquer an indigenous culture in Holy War through human sacrifice. Human sacrifice appeases the wrath of diabolical gods of human aggression, which is mobilized through a persecution complex to satiate the greed...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 24, 2019 | Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
A politician who uses Christianity to promote immorality and economic exploitation through lying propaganda is considered an antichrist in the Bible. Christians who embrace Trump and his promises of salvation (or any politician who uses God as a pretense) are...
by Andrew Jasko | Apr 19, 2019 | Psychology, Religious Trauma and Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality
An embodied existence comes with many unpleasant realities and limitations. No one is born wanting to die, get sick, or experience pain. Naturally, many religions envisioned spirituality as a way to transcend the afflictions of the body. They confused the site of...
