religious trauma

I recently wrote an article on NoFakeNews about fear-based relationships. I discussed the Abrahamic religions because they are the fear-based belief constructs that most people in America are familiar with.

A visitor to this website sent me the article featured above and asked me to comment on the subject.

As I wrote in my recent post, I believe most religions are unhealthy because they create unreasonable and unrealistic environments for their members and coerce people to live certain lifestyles not because they love God but because they fear eternal condemnation.

I have personally come across patients in my private practice and people in other social circles who were so psychologically hurt, in my unprofessional opinion, because just about anything they did in life they viewed as a sin that jeopardized their path to heaven.

There are intelligent people out there who believe if they eat or drink something before the sun reaches a certain point in the sky, they’re going to hell!

It’s a, it’s a, it’s a, it’s a sin

But Is It Really?

I am not telling people what or what not to believe. That’s not the purpose of my posts. My message to anyone interested in this subject is to use good critical thinking skills when traveling the many roads we encounter during our lives.

— Dr. Reizer