Possessed by God

People who believe in God are possessed by demons. Those demons are very often their own, of course. In fact, those who fear themselves the most are the ones who also judge others the most. And they are also the one's who, like an inveterate gambler or a hopeless drug addict, will  not only vehemently deny they are incurably addicted to their "beliefs," but will very often respond to such an accusation in typically one of three ways.

The first way is to play the victim, asking "why are you attacking my faith?" This question plays innocent, as if a person's desire to simply "believe" whatever it is they want is a perfectly harmless thing, even though believing things on flimsy to no evidence at all has been used to support bogus wars, every genocide of the 20th century (in one way or another), and can even be traced all the way back to Adam & Eve choosing to simply "believe" the serpent, despite no evidence to support his claim that they would "become like God" if they ate of the forbidden fruit.

So when the Christian says, "why are you attacking my faith?" the answer is quite simply because their faith is an attack on reason itself. More than this, in fact, it is from this "faith" that the Christian derives all of their supposed "divine" authority to pretend they hold moral superiority in everything from war to marriage, and from sex to the origins of the universe itself. And they do all of this, of course, with all of the conviction of a lunatic who is quite sure they are Napoleon Bonaparte. Or to put it another way, the majority of people who claim to believe in God, are quite simply suffering from a god-complex, since they are quite sure that their own ideas about everything under the sun, are always perfectly aligned with the "God" they have in mind.

Indeed, that is why their "God" just happens to hate all of the same people that they do, and for all of the very same reasons.It also illustrates how easy it is for the victimizer to hide their victimization of others by always claiming to be the victim. Examples include Christians who  supported witch burning and later lynchings, who likewise tended to oppose the abolition of slavery (because slavery is sanctioned in the Bible, they argued), Conservatives who opposed Civil Rights, and all those who opposed interracial and now same sex marriage.  

The second way Christians respond to any criticism of their sacred "beliefs" is to claim that people must necessarily believe in something, lest they believe in anything, and they must believe in God, lest they have no reason to be moral at all. Both of these claims are patently false.

First, it is the fact that people are trained to simply accept the "belief" in their God, and thus their religion and their church and their priests, that conditions their mind to believe in all sorts of things without evidence, and all because it makes them "feel" go to simply believe it (even as they only ever insist that their "faith" is not simply a "feeling").

God, in this respect, is simply a gateway drug, that hooks the user on the endorphin buzz that comes from "believing" in "love," which of course is God. Religion then conditions the user to identify this ecstasy of belief, as "proof" in and of itself, that the "belief" must be real, even as the "priests" who convince people of this lie directly deny this fact, by insisting that such a feeling is not simply the result of their own endorphins, but actually caused by an outside stimulate called the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, in this respect, is a spiritual heroin addiction, that is everywhere applauded by other uses as not only the greatest virtue of all, but as the only drug capable of keeping people from becoming raving rapists and serial killers.

God is not only heroin, in other words, but thorazine as well.

Second, the claim that people would have no reason to be moral if they don't believe in God is really just an admission by Christians that, but for their belief or love (i.e. fear) of God, they'd likely give into all of their worst desires. (This is possible with God, of course, as any historical survey of Christianity readily reveals. It's just that all of the raping and killing needs to be carried out the way it was in the Old Testament is all.)

 After all, it is not like most people in a given society are law abiding simply because that society has plenty of laws. In fact, the Conservatives in America are quite right to argue the very opposite in their politics, even as they suggest such a thing is indispensable to their religion!

 Anthropology is filled with examples of tribes and ancient people's who had no laws, however, and yet such peoples were not all raving rapists, thieves, and serial killers, as the Christian who demands that morality needs God would have the world believe. But the Christian simply chooses to ignore the mountain of evidence that undermines their claim, preferring instead to simply "believe" the priest or pastor who continues to peddle this lie, with all of the believably of a serpent selling forbidden fruit.  

And third, many of the greatest evils were only possible because people had simply chosen to "believe" in any number of lies, as if it were their religion. Racism, slavery, Communism, and plenty of other examples, all happened either directly with the support of Christianity, or because religion had succeeded in conditioning people to simply accepting the idea that their "belief" was the same thing as "truth," while convincing them that questioning such "truth" amounted to heresy. (How ironic is it that the Christian who is called to be like Christ, refuses to question their Christianity for fear of being accused of being a heretic, like Christ.)

But even an atheist can read the story of Adam & Eve and see clearly that the problem was their willingness to simply "believe" what the serpent told them, and all because they wanted to be like God - which is the exact same thing Christianity says people must strive to be, in order to qualify for God's gracious admission into his Heavenly kingdom.

No wonder the miters worn by Pope's and Bishops resemble the head of a King Cobra.