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Explaining Religious Psychosis

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DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,622
3,132
The bunker at parliament
There is a part of me that thinks I should feel bad for these people. Like, some empathy is a good thing in most cases.

But I just can't. How fucking stupid are these people? This tale is as old as religion itself and the rubes just keep coming out of the woodwork.

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.” - Mark Twain.
Pretty much just can't help some levels of stupid.

They once helped a woman get her $1,000 donation back from a ministry, only for her to donate it all over again. "She called us afterwards, asking to get it back again," recalls Pete, saying they had to decline the second time. "My feeling is she was addicted. She just got hooked back on to the TV and believing what they said."
 

jackalope

Mental acuity - 1%
Jan 9, 2004
7,703
6,109
in a single wide, cooking meth...

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,828
19,155
Riding the baggage carousel.

As I noted when the same crowd celebrated Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, rising tensions in the Middle East are a feature, not a bug, for these folks. That’s because all of this was prophesied thousands of years ago as a prelude to the rapture. In other words, they welcome the escalation.
 
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stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,165
10,105
even those of us born as preachers kids!
i knew a preachers kids in highschool.....son was the highschool qb who was the first person i ever saw snort coke and his sister was quite the cock wrangler....

im sure jeebus forgave them....
 

jstuhlman

bagpipe wanker
Dec 3, 2009
17,343
14,179
Cackalacka du Nord
i knew a preachers kids in highschool.....son was the highschool qb who was the first person i ever saw snort coke and his sister was quite the cock wrangler....

im sure jeebus forgave them....
lulz. as far back as i can remember never believed in jeebus, heaven, hell, anything remotely spiritual or religious. i just hated being forced to be in that place every sunday and as soon as i realized what was up stopped repeating all of the puppet words.

people can do and believe what they want. it's just not my cup o tea and i can be a good person on my own without participating in the system. when it's time to punch my clock i'm happy to say goodbye without having to rely on a "better place."
 

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,390
15,162
directly above the center of the earth

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
67,843
14,177
In a van.... down by the river
the Psycho in Chiefs Spiritual Psycho Babbler doth speaketh

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places"

Do you suppose shagging a porn star while you're married counts as "spiritual wickedness"? Asking for friend...
 

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,390
15,162
directly above the center of the earth
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places"

Do you suppose shagging a porn star while you're married counts as "spiritual wickedness"? Asking for friend...
Or shagging future wife #2 while wife #1 is dying in the hospital