Social Intoxication of a Religious
Nature
March 2009
By Jeff Wismer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoxication
Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more psychoactive
drugs. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the
overconsumption of normally harmless substances.
Some types of intoxication:
**Insert Religious Intoxication Here**
Somewhere between Chemical
Intoxication and a State of
Intoxication can cause a state
of mind that remains once the person is no longer intoxicated that can
be used as a legal defense:
I’m sure
by now you’ve heard Organized Religion and Religious behavior referred to has a
social disease, or as Sigmund Freud put it “The opiate of the masses”. It may be an opiate but even opiates taken in
very small amounts doesn’t produce a visibly measurable form of intoxication
nor does it lead to abusive behavior and eventually addiction.
Nor do I
believe that religious behavior should be classified as a social disease, like
a cancer or a virus, that can be eradicated with some
kind of medical treatment. It’s true
that psychotherapy may help a person find themselves, and be used as a vehicle
to stir them away from religious behavior.
However psychotherapy and psychiatry is just a means to an end, and it
and of itself is not a cure all.
Psychotherapists and Psychiatrists oftentimes employ some form of
spirituality to help guide the person back to a healthier state of mind. This falls in line within the chain of
reasoning that one doesn’t force agnosticism down the throat of a homeless
person, or someone who is terminally ill.
Sometimes we can justify having someone cling on to hope b/c there
current situation is very bleak. Nor
would we want a potential psychotic homeopathic killer rejecting god when it’s
the fear of eternal damnation is the only thing stopping him/her from going on
a murderous rampage. In conclusion
religious behavior has its purposes in life beyond that of the obvious fear of
death.
How Social Religious Intoxication
works on the mind
You’re at
a bar. You have one drink, maybe two,
maybe three. You are willing yourself to
consume more alcohol to produce the necessary effect of being intoxicated. If you do this every night
than its called alcohol abuse, and you have an addiction. The same can be said with any chemical that
leads to a certain intoxication or euphoria.
Religion
works the same way.
This idea
came to me while watching Kenneth Copeland (http://www.kcm.org/)
one night on TV and I noticed that he was acting like he was drunk on
stage. His speech was slurred. He didn’t make proper eye contact with anyone
for longer than 2 seconds. He was also
making weird gestures with his body, hands, and his facial expressions were
crazy and erratic.
Then I
began to think of other well known preachers such as:
1.http://www.fartingpreacher.org/
2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard
4.http://www.jhm.org/ME2/Default.asp
(John Hagee)
5.http://www.patrobertson.com/
6.http://www.livingwaters.com/
, http://www.wayofthemaster.com/
(Ray Comfort)
7.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright
8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pfleger
10.
http://www.billygraham.org/
11.
http://www.jimbakkershow.com/
What do
they all have in common?
They act
like they’re drunk…albeit different types of drunks.
Different Types of Social
Religious Drunkards
A.
The
ANGRY Religious Drunk
Everyone has met this type of drunk at bars or at
parties. They drink too much make a
scene, start a fight, or smash things.
Prime examples of this are Jerry Falwell,
Rod Parsley, and John Hagee.
B.
The
HAPPY GOOFY Religious drunk
Yes we all know who you are. You can’t stop laughing after having too much
to drink. You become the bar/party clown
as you do things just to make an ass out of yourself to keep people
laughing.
Prime examples of this are Kenneth Copeland and the
Farting Preacher.
C.
The
LOUD Religious Drunk
You need to shut the fuck up when you’re out at a bar or
party and have too much to drink. You
make everyone else uncomfortable, and there’s a reason you end up alone in the
bathroom, or purposely sent to the wrong direction or given the wrong bar name.
Prime Examples of this are Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger.
D.
The
CRAZY Mother Fucka Douche Bag Religious Drunk
Nobody likes you.
You’re a jackass for drinking. Go
Fuck yourself.
Prime examples of this are Ted Haggard, and Ray Comfort
E.The CREEPY OLD CRAZY EYED Religious Drunk
No we don’t want to hear your stories that you try to
regale us with and even if we did we can’t understand a fucking word out of your mouth b/c it sounds like you’re chewing or you have a
bag full of marbles in there. Please if you’re
going to drink too much make sure a your dog named
Earl is around to listen to your bullshit.
Prime Examples of this are Pat Robertson, Billy Graham,
and James Baker.
Everybody gets drunk
Sure
enough even if you give a group of college kids non-alcoholic beer and lie to
them they will still act up and if one person in the group acts like they’re
hammered then everyone will.
Such is
the effect of religious indoctrination which leads to intoxication.
Here we
have the time honored tradition of planting someone amongst the religious crowd
gathered to hear the preacher, and if one person acts drunk (speaking in
tongues, closing eyes and shaking your body, waving your hands around like
you’re on fire, singing real loud, or praying so hard that you fart) then
everyone around them sees this and thanks to the foundational mob rule/group
think/peer pressure sure enough most if not all follow suit.
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