Is Funda- (mental) Christianity sick?

After being part of Christianity for many years and being locked into the conditioning of the mind, I was finally liberated and again felt the freedom of my pre-Christian days. I rediscovered my old self, and I began to wonder how I ever got caught up in this belief system. My Christian friends deserted me when I walked away from the establishment called Church, and I now see these wonderful but misinformed people in a new light and it is this same light that I would have projected to others, and this article is a reflection of that light.

I now see fundamental Christianity as akin to a psychological breakdown. If you look closely you will see that it is a distortion of reality, a state of delusion, and of vivid hallucinations. If you attend, for example, a Pentecostal service you will find repetitious sayings, singing, and emotional disturbances such as a state of confusion as if in a trance, which appears to effect many of them?

They become this way after being ‘reborn’ (born again) not being satisfied with their original birth, as they have been conditioned to believe that they have been tainted with the Original sin of Adam and Eve. Why would a supposed fair and just God hold you personally responsible for the sin of someone else? This ‘new birth’ becomes a world of fantasy, illogical ideas, and things invisible, such as God, Satan, demons, ghosts, angels, heaven and hell.

The Christian believes in one God? – the Father, the begotten son Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. These three Gods are one God. Is that logical? The Christian believes that God knows all of their thoughts, deeds and actions, and that Satan is continually trying to divert their attention away from their three gods, sorry one God. The Christian believes in immortality and that they are part of God’s plan providing they can stay one jump ahead of Satan, who is constantly out to destroy, and lead them to the eternal fires of hell. This now begins to look like a mental health problem.

The ‘born again’ believer starts to suffer from hallucinations, hearing voices, which they believe is God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit speaking to them. Some say that they even see these spirit beings. At times they begin talking to themselves, and their voices become incoherent. (speaking in tongues of which I was guilty of.) No one can understand this lingo, yet someone among the group is expected to know what they are talking about. This supposed interpretation is said to be a personal revelation from God Himself to edify the church. (condemnation is not accepted.)

There are other times when their behaviour become erratic, Some appear to go into a trance like state and fall to the floor, sometimes writhing, make weird groaning noises, sometimes screams and sobbing, and no one appears to be concerned. Why would God want his people to appear in such a way as to think that they have some type of mental disorder?

Jim Lee

21/10/00