Christian Crazy
Sexy Drunk Christians: Chapter 1 Polluted Thinking Part 1
There can be no doubt Christianity pollutes American life, law, government, jobs, culture, and society with irrational ideas based on an improbable religion. If you are a first-time reader of Christian Pollution literature, we urge you to investigate the issues raised herein and find your conclusions based on relevant facts and logic. If reading because Christianity disturbed or harmed you, we hope to provide insight into the seriousness of this problem and reasons to abandon the religion.
As discussed in our first book, Christian pollution refers to the values and beliefs manifesting in all areas of America, but most damagingly — within our thinking. Living in a Christian-dominated society makes everyone prone to acting on religious ideals (we may not even believe) or makes us victims of its pollution. The risk of self-harm and hurting others is far greater than you perceive since deeply embedded Christian “values” can inspire those same glaring behavioral hypocrisies witnessed and loathed in Christians.
This thought pollution justifies anything.
To believe in Christianity, you must accept an implausible scenario as your thought foundation, resulting in rationality cemented in possibilities rather than the facts of reality, no different than believing the wrong mathematical formulas. If you believe 1+1=3, all calculations made will be wrong. Unlike math’s clarity, Christianity mires in confusion with an implausible belief leading to a subjective, erroneous reality in which seemingly correct answers result.
Christians claim the Bible presents valuable wisdom, and some scripture is sensible, such as “do unto others.” Yet the same religion preaching “do unto others” claims homosexuals should die. Biblical contradictions, so commonly mentioned today, became trite, demanding deeper scrutiny of the thinking necessary to justify these opposing ideas.
Not merely failures of logic, contradictions represent cognitive dissonance, which refers to inconsistencies between thoughts or between thoughts and behavior, causing internal discord or discomfort. If you consider yourself a loving, caring person, putting a homosexual to death violates your self-perception and causes distress. This trait is beneficial, maintaining consistent thoughts and behavior necessary for a harmonious life. If you view yourself as a selfless person on Tuesday and give the poor money, then on Wednesday, steal from work to replace the money you handed out the day before, life turns to chaos. Instead, your mind limits generosity based on your needs and theft’s sense of wrongness, tempering you into a reasonably altruistic person.
Christianity violates the rational balancing of needs and morality, allowing believers to overcome dissonance by justifying contradictions, thereby creating discord. The contradictory thinking elicited from an improbable belief (Christianity) appears rational because what appears as wisdom, “do unto others,” is just practical insight found in most cultures in one form or another. This wisdom becomes susceptible to irrational application, having been filtered by Christianity, perfectly explaining the many glaring contradictions inherent in Christians, like believing “do unto others” while trying to oppress entire populations such as LGBTQ.
You are rendered insane by Christianity.1
Christian-induced distorted thinking’s acuteness depends on the amount, frequency, and severity of contradictions.2 Little research exists in this area because living in a Christian-dominated society biases everyone to perceive the religion as healthy or minimally safe. This perception is false, and evidence suggests Christianity causes a constant irrational state. The best evidence for this causal effect is the cognitive distortions Christians must create to justify their dissonance.
The only way Christians prove their ideas is through rationalizations: cognitive distortions.
Cognitive Distortions
The Bible, Christianity’s implausible foundation, inspires many fallacies needed to justify the Christian worldview, but the abundance and severity of these fallacies dictate they are less a result of poor argument skill and more indicative of cognitive distortions. Persecution, an idea widely embraced by the Christian worldview, exemplifies their distorted understanding.3 Any American Christian believing themselves or their fellow believers to be victims of persecution lacks reason, to the point of being almost delusional since this religion dominates US culture and law. Beyond problems created from believing themselves persecuted, Christians exhibit cognitive distortions with such severity and frequency that arguing poor argument skills as the sole explanation seems unlikely. More to the point, repeatedly committing the same logical contradictions exemplifies their repetition of fallacies.4
That is the definition of a pathology!
A thin line separates cognitive distortions from fallacies seen readily comparing their definitions. Psychology describes cognitive distortions differently depending on the researcher, but generally accepted distorted thought patterns yield the tremendous overlap of these descriptors:
1. Filtering: Magnifying negative details “while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation,” often focusing on a single detail and coloring the whole event by this detail.5
2. Polarized Thinking: an insistence on dichotomous choices…black or white, good or bad, and the tendency to perceive everything in extremes with very little room for a middle ground.6
3. Overgeneralization: Coming to a general conclusion based on a single incident or evidence. Expecting negative circumstance to repeat after a single occurrence.7
Aligning by enumeration with these distortions are fallacies,
1. The fallacy of composition: inferring that the part is true of the whole.8
2. False dilemma: Also known as a false dichotomy, this fallacy is a limitation of options based on a premise that ignores other available choices.9
3. The fallacy of overgeneralization: A conclusion derived from a sample, not representative of the population for being too small and too focused.10
Herein, we show you how Christianity produces irrationality by distorting reality and pollutes entire fields with other damaging beliefs and religious biases. We glean these insights from the supposedly science-based methods of the drug and alcohol addiction treatment industry that sentences people to Alcoholics Anonymous, hoping God will cure the incurable…
Triola, V. & Trueman, T. (2022). Christian Pollution: Polemics & Absurdities See: “How Christianity Makes You Insane” https://a.co/g9R6g3I
Triola, Vincent (2022) Christianity: Philosophy or Pathology? – Christian Pollution https://christianpollution.com/blogs/no-to-christianity/christianity-philosophy-or-pathology
Triola, V & Trueman, T. (2022). Christian Pollution: Polemics & Absurdities See: “How Christianity Makes You Insane” https://a.co/g9R6g3I
Triola, Vincent (2022) Christianity: Philosophy or Pathology? – Christian Pollution…
McKay, Davis, & Fanning. New Harbinger, 1981. Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life Kindle Edition. Note: These styles of thinking for cognitive distortions were gleaned from the work of several authors including Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, and David Burns among others.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Wikipedia. (2022). The fallacy of composition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition#:~:text=The%20fallacy%20of%20composition%20is%20an%20informal%20fallacy,is%20a%20part%20is%20also%20made%20of%20rubber.%22
Wikipedia. (2022). False dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma