Religious Psychopaths

[Fool]

religion isn't always a great thing. sometimes it's used to enslave and destroy.


can you name a religious psychopath?


i can think of a few but david koresh and jim jones comes to mind


thanks to [B]@ChristineM[/B] for the idea and this thread. hope you're having an enjoyable day.

 

[ChristineM]

Think Islamic State... And other terrorist groups in the name of religion.

 

[Fool]

Think Islamic State... And other terrorist groups in the name of religion.

It seems ironic that a religion that espouses surrender, is aggressively projected as hateful and unfriendly towards others and not self.

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[PureX]

I'm not as unnerved by psychos as I am by the fact that there are as many people in the world willing to follow them as there are. People wanting to give up their freedom and be dictated to by a tyrant. I can't understand that, at all.

 

[Stonetree]

@PureX...Many follow religious teachings so as to be better people; Organized religion can be tyrannical and insist on their faithful to follow them almost blindly.... Just offering a parallel to your statement about tyrants...

 

[PureX]

It's incomprehensible to me how someone would think that being a better person would require their being enslaved by someone else.

I think they want to forfeit the responsibility of being their own person, but that is so anathema to my own personality that I can't really conceive of it.

 

[Twilight Hue]

religion isn't always a great thing. sometimes it's used to enslave and destroy.


can you name a religious psychopath?


i can think of a few but david koresh and jim jones comes to mind


thanks to [B]@ChristineM[/B] for the idea and this thread. hope you're having an enjoyable day.

Radical Islam. Biggest religious psychopaths on the planet

 

[paradox]

religion isn't always a great thing. sometimes it's used to enslave and destroy.


can you name a religious psychopath?


i can think of a few but david koresh and jim jones comes to mind


thanks to [B]@ChristineM[/B] for the idea and this thread. hope you're having an enjoyable day.

probably a more correct word would be religious fanaticism, there is even wikipedia entry for it:
Religious fanaticism - Wikipedia

 

[Sirona]

probably a more correct word would be religious fanaticism, there is even wikipedia entry for it:
Religious fanaticism - Wikipedia

I might be wrong but I don't think people showing religious fanaticism and religious psychopaths are necessarily the same. From the viewpoint of (neo)-Hinduism the "acceptance" of a teaching may depend on the charismatic personality of a religious leader more than on their ability to spew out verses from religious scriptures. Religious leaders may propagate teachings as "con-artists" without actually believing in them to string a chord in their "customers" because they know that many (not all) people have an inherent need for religiosity. Leaders may get some benefits from it such as "living the life of a rock star" or believing they are "almighty". I would call such leaders religious sociopaths but not fanaticists in case they actually don't believe in what they teach.

 

[Heyo]

religion isn't always a great thing. sometimes it's used to enslave and destroy.


can you name a religious psychopath?


i can think of a few but david koresh and jim jones comes to mind


thanks to [B]@ChristineM[/B] for the idea and this thread. hope you're having an enjoyable day.

I don't know if Koresh or Jones have been diagnosed as psychopaths. And I think of religious psychopaths more of people like this: Transgender axe attacker says voices told her to 'kill and maim' before horrific onslaught | Daily Mail Online. (It's only an example, don't take it serious, it's the Daily Fail.) People who hear voices and act on their commands. Like this lady: Sarah Palin on running for Senate: "If God wants me to do it, I will'.