• mycroft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If average mental state is the measurement, then we get to include both the positive and the negative effects of religious mentality. Like Jim Jones, and the neverending stream of “posessions” that stem from complete mental conflicts and disconnections from reality – encouraging people’s mental illnesses.

    Churches, hiding and covering up relgious negative experiences, cult worship as offshoots, death cults etc.

    We pretend like the salem witch hunts were last eon or something, tell people “there are witches, they exist, satan compelled them to do things and they can make you do things.”

    All of a sudden a whole village was being “tempted” by satan, and it was all these witches fault.

    Just gotta come up with a story as to how “it’s not your fault” and people will fall over themselves to figure out how they fit in that story.