Dangers of belief in a Devil (especially when politicized)
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Christianity’s Most Dangerous Idea (And Why It Won’t Die), May 13, 2024:
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The author of Ephesians has done a lot of damage. Here I explain why.
Dr. Joseph P. Laycock, scholar of new religious movements and specialist on satanism and satanic panic, joins me to discuss the dangerous idea of supreme evil in Christian tradition, pop culture, and politics. From Putin, to Rainbow Revival, to Isaiah Saldivar’s ministry, many use the idea of supernatural evil, demons, and devils, to achieve their individual goals. This can result in the spread of witch trials, religious wars, religious prejudice, or just plain old ignorance.
Get Joseph Laycock’s books here: Amazon link
Dr. Joseph P. Laycock, scholar of new religious movements and specialist on satanism and satanic panic, joins me to discuss the dangerous idea of supreme evil in Christian tradition, pop culture, and politics. From Putin, to Rainbow Revival, to Isaiah Saldivar’s ministry, many use the idea of supernatural evil, demons, and devils, to achieve their individual goals. This can result in the spread of witch trials, religious wars, religious prejudice, or just plain old ignorance.
Get Joseph Laycock’s books here: Amazon link
on the YouTube channel Genetically Modified Skeptic
Note: This video is not an attack on all Christians, but specifically on the idea of supernatural Evil as used in the political realm.
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SMiLes, Thanks For Sharing the Video Relating "Dangers of Belief in a Devil (Especially When Politicized)."
Throughout my Life Hehe Gifted With BD Numbers, 6.6.60, On my Driver's License, i've Been Prey to the Predator
Of Human Ignorance; And Yes, The Condition of The Human Condition That Bonds and Binds Over Rarified Abstract
Constructs of Both Symbols and Related Ideologies; Otherwise, Known Still Now as the Basics For Religion; What
Keeps Humans Holding
Hands Basically Singing
From the Same Choir Sheets as Such;
Inspiring them to Work Greater Together
As the Neurohormone Oxytocin That Comes
Stronger Not Only Bonds and Binds Humans in
Common 'Causes' ThiS Way Yet Literally Eases Pain
And Anxiety
As Materially
Reducing Reality
ThiS Way Allays the
Fears Folks Have Naturally
of the Unknown as Yes of Course
Nature, Including Our Nature Will
Be Very Unpredictable ThiS Way; Particularly,
As Modern Science Shows Our Word Thinking Minds
Only Comprise about .5 Percent Altogether of What Keeps Us Ticking
IN
Synch
as Such
Best to the
Abilities of All
We aRe Far beyond
What Our Conscious
Thinking Minds Are Able
to Detect Fully Of Course, Day to Day Now...
Hehe That Lends A Bunch of 'Empty Space' To Figure Out
That Indeed Will And Does Often Seem Very Chaotic to 'Control'...
Ah, the Beauty
of Just Letting
Go and Letting
All Of Nature
Fall In Place And
Rise iN LoVE iN Peace
Yet That is More of an Eastern
Philosophy Way of Balancing Our Nature's Now;
Whereas, Our More "Left Brain" Processing of the World
in Western Civilizations, Attempts to Grasp and Reduce
Reality in Terms of Black and White; Yes, Missing the 'Entire
Spectrum of the Rainbow' That May Still Be Represented By
3, 6, 8 Or Really Unlimited Spectrums of Colors in Between Those;
It's Just
A 'Matter'
if We Wanna
Reduce the Essence
into Black And White Symbols;
MiSSinG, the More Holistic View of
the Spectrum of Reality that May Be
Explored Life Long Evolving As We Might Other
Wise
Do
More Than Attempting
to Rarify Abstract Constructs
into Very Limited Symbols and
Ideologies Where Sadly Humans Will
Bond and Bind Over Symbols And Ideologies
That Harm Other Human Beings That Don't Fit
in Their
Limited
Abstract
BLacK And White
Symbols and Ideologies...
Anyway, Hehe Back to the Demonization
of Three Sixes Made Popular Related to
Birth Dates By 'the Omen' Series of Movies;
Still Carded for the Occasional Beer in my 40's
at Walmart, the Fundamentalist Black And White Thinking
Evangelical Cashiers Used to Look at the 6.6.60 on my
Driver's
License
And Express
Sheer Terror hehe...
i Did my Best Not to Giggle...
Yet of Course, This Has a Much More Serious Side...
For Those Not In the Know of What A Partial
Complex Epileptic Seizure Looks Like When
Another Human Being Falls Victim to This Disorder;
It's easy to See How the Involuntary Grimaces of Facial
Muscles and Chaotic Body Moving, Losing All Conscious
Awareness of the Environment Where You Can Pass Your
Fingers by Their Eyes and They Won't Even Blink; Yep, It's
Easy to See Why Ignorance of Humanity Once Related This to 'Demon Possession'
As Some of These Folks Distressed With the Disorder Were Burned at the Stake For Being
'Demons'
In the Name
of Some Ignorant
'Truly Evil God' as
Yes, Ignorance is Most Responsible
for the Harming, Raping, Maiming and
Killing Of Other Human Beings and The Rest of Nature too...
Fortunately, i Live in a Day and Age Where State and Religion Has
Been Separated; Hehe, No One Has killed me Yet for the Numbers on
my Driver's License and my Wife Who Experiences Complex Partial Seizures
Remains Alive
too; i Tend to Do
My Best to Reduce the
Human Pandemic of Ignorance
That IS A Natural Part of the Human Condition;
As Humans Through Their Symbols and Ideologies;
Yes, the Stories They Create And Bond and Bind Over
to Stick Together to Survive Have the Potential of Creating
Wonderful Paradises
oF LoVE iN Peace
Or Other Realities
of Loving Wars Against
Others They See As Separate
In Ignorance
of Fear, Anger
And Hate;
i Visit a Church Every Sunday
For the Communion of LoVE iN Peace;
It's the Catholic One i Was Raised in;
From the Outside In There is Not Much
i Can Do to Precipitate More Positive Change;
Yet Indeed, i Can Also Use the Politics of Moving
Emotional Strings For Change From Inside Those places
Of Both LoVE iN Peace
And LoVE oF War Against
Others Who Are Different From
The So-Called Holy and Sacred Norm...
Almost a Decade Ago, Deacons There
Related Hurricanes Naturally Spreading
Ocean Heat as Evil and Homosexual Behavior
Associated With Hurricanes as Evil too; Dear Lord,
Even Suggesting Single Mother's Were Unfit to Have
And Raise
Children;
Ah Yes, Emails
Similar to this Then to
The Head Priest Put a Stop
To That And It Never Happened again...
Yeah, The Kids Who Were of Different Orientations
No Longer had to Hear They Were of 'Demons' instead of
The 'Angels'
With Empathy
and Compassion
For All Others They Truly Were
And Still Are As Sure i've Got Family
Members Like that too; And Considering
That Around a Quarter or so of Newer Generations
are too; Yes, Others Have Loved Ones With Other Colors of
The Spectrum
of Existence True...
Either Humans Evolve
Together or They Fall Apart...
i Do the Little i can to Change That
And Do; And i Still Do Wherever i Go in Life...
If Enough People Do, the Species Will Evolve and
Perhaps
Not Totally
Go Away; A First
Move is Letting Go
of the Past and Loving
Now Best We Can And Will in Peace Together;
That Much Of the Barrel of Apples Fresh And Rotten
Some Churches
Do Continue to Do to Evolve...
Sure, With a Little Help From FRiEnDS...
As Far As Political Implications Go, my Grandfather
An X-Catholic Irish Priest Wrote a Book Titled "Behind
The Dictators" Last Century That is Still Referenced For
How The Catholic
Church Was in Part
Supportive of the
Dictator's Of Last Century...
Sadly That Ignorance And 'Real Evil'
Continues...
ALL
AROUND
The Human
'Condition' World...
It is What it is; It's Up
(Clue: Overall, the Human
Condition as Science Shows
Now is Not Particularly Rational;
Yuck, We Have the Potential to Devolve
Into a Marjorie Taylor Green TRump World)
to All of Us Now to Improve And Evolve Yet
Nah, Not
Waiting on
Anyone Else to Do it...
At Least Not WHere i am From HeHe (Hell)
And That's More Than a Metaphor; the place
i Am From was Literally Called 'Hell' First Hehe;
The Folks
Were Not
too Nice Then; Now,
They Offer No Real Danger to me;
i Even Get Hugs, wherever i Go From
What Was Once Strangers; i Just Carry
Unconditional SMiLes oF LoVE iN Peace;
It's Like
'Real MaGiC;'
It Does Wonders
When Genuine,
Sincere; Yes, Real and True...
It's Almost Like, If Some Folks Can Sense
And Feel, i Exclude No One From LoVE iN Peace...
Ah How Sweet,
True Human
Success;
at
least
to me With SMiLes..
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