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VenomFangX: The Psychology of Fundamentalism



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A brief essay describing the psychology of fundamentalism; inspired by VenomFangX.
A second essay is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSM5JmXucDw
A third essay is here.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XQPKV8iooCU
The music is "Hold On" by Tom Waits. Many of the ideas, particularly the order of them, were provided by A. Freeman.


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sounds like my ... ( 2 months ago by eddygoombah)
sounds like my friend jeff. He's the nicest kid I have ever met. You would never know his parents had completely disowned him and kicked him on the street when he was 16 when they found out. Jeff is actually one of the lucky ones. He somehow was able to make it to California, where he met some great people who love him for who he is. 6 years later, deep down you can tell he still hurts, especially since he was very close with his grandmother, but he's doing much better than if he was still there
Very sad but very ... ( 2 months ago by ubergossen)
Very sad but very true. There is hope though, one of my best friends in high school became a fundamentalist christian creationist and after a great deal of discussion he is now a spiritual person not conforming to any particular religion.
If you think you're ... ( 2 months ago by ubergossen)
If you think you're a Christian, then that's good enough for me. There are thousands of branches of Christianity, and not one of them are right, therefore either no one is a Christian or everyone who calls themselves a Christian is.
Since it would be useless to not classify anyone as a Christian, everyone is a Christian.
wow this video is ... ( 2 months ago by boorens18)
wow this video is great. Fav and subscribed. Makes you feel bad for fundamentalists rather than mock them
This sounds similar ... ( 2 months ago by Binaguano)
This sounds similar to what is found with drug addicts.
This is totally ... ( 2 months ago by bobharris77)
This is totally wrong. This video is one long personal attack on theists, coached in psychological terms. It is bigotry. Undoubtedly, some of them are crazy, but many are perfectly sane and decent people.
The way to combat religion is NOT through personal attacks. It needs to be done through reason and education.
VX may be a lunatic or he may be building a profitable career for himself, or he may have an honest passion for his beliefs. Who cares?
Stick with truth and reason.
One other point. I ... ( 2 months ago by bobharris77)
One other point. I live in an area where fundamentalist religion is very common. Most of these people believe as they do, NOT because of mental problems, but because they've had this stuff pounded into their brins from infancy.
Their parents, their friends, their teachers and their clergy continue to reinforce religion throughout their lives and during their most impressionable years.
It is education that will eventually break this cycle. THAT is what we need to be promoting.
Uh, this describes ... ( 2 months ago by NihilisticAgnostic)
Uh, this describes me perfectly, only I'm not a fundamentalist. I'm autistic.
...Are fundamentalists autistic? o_O
Sounds like mental ... ( 2 months ago by JETZcorp)
Sounds like mental problems to me. Problems from without, rather than from within, perhaps.
Certainly sounds ... ( 2 months ago by TheBronzeDog)
Certainly sounds like the fundies I know.
You made a point about sense of humor: I've certainly seen no signs of humor in woos of any variety.
Watch EddyGoombah's ... ( 1 month ago by Doddmen)
Watch EddyGoombah's video on Asperger's. Asperger's syndrome is an autism-spectrum disorder, and he explains how VFX/PCS shows lots of Asperger's traits.
I've never really ... ( 1 month ago by NihilisticAgnostic)
I've never really wanted to peg VFX as having AS but I could see it. Then again, I may just not want to accept him having AS because then we are more similar than I would want to admit. Eddy's video on AS was pretty good.
in b4 self-diagnosed. That is not the case here.
That made me sad ( 1 month ago by lucash21158)
That made me sad
But, the problem is ... ( 1 month ago by softy1000)
But, the problem is that these fundamentalists don't like education, because it gets rid of their sense of continuity, as the essay has stated. If they won't accept evolution, on which they could be EASILY educated, how could they be educated about what they are doing? Education is great, but it doesn't work when the person you're trying to educate won't listen.
softy1000 I can ... ( 1 month ago by bobharris77)
softy1000 I can remember people back in the 60's who were such fanatical racists that I assumed they would never change. I know for sure that at least one of them voted for Obama last month.
Reason will prevail - eventually. Some of these people have never heard the other side of the question and are just flabbergasted that anyone could have the audacity to deny their god.
Some of them are genuinely frightened by us. We just have to start their wheels turning.
ok....either ... ( 3 weeks ago by Bockatadi)
ok....either Theowarner is spying on my friend and i, and commenting on our current relationship, or this situation is far more common than i think, which is alarming.
Now I feel sorry ... ( 3 weeks ago by nbarrett100)
Now I feel sorry for VenomFangX
I disagree. ... ( 3 weeks ago by TheGodsEnvyUs)
I disagree. Nowhere in there was there an attack on people who simply believe in God. The video was purely about fundamentalists.
This video ... ( 3 weeks ago by BeatBuddy)
This video describes a branch of my extended family to the tee. I've tried to get them to see life through the eyes of others, and through the eyes of reason, but to no avail. They can only appreciate art within their glass bubble. Trying to reason with them is the most frustrating endeavor I've ever attempted.
Straight to my ... ( 3 weeks ago by ItachiRaikiri)
Straight to my printer.....
I too have had ... ( 2 weeks ago by Cnidarious)
I too have had similar experiences with friends.
I live in a town where the only friends i could get were fundamentalists. Which in high school was very hard because i had just moved from another place where all of my friends were the children of scientists and were all critical thinkers, To this day these people and my time there have a profound effect on me and my view of the overly religious, so you might understand how hard it was to be surrounded by bigotry.
Nice essay :D ( 2 weeks ago by UNFFwildcard)
Nice essay :D
Very true, but you ... ( 1 day ago by fantasy0coach)
Very true, but you speak of the 'victim', the product of one's environment/society. It's the partial or full societal acceptance of his cult, that actually is the cause of his pathology. Should society in the main, reject such cults, fundamentalist victims are not then produced. Societal acceptance is driven greatly by ridicule. Ridicule of cult fairy tales, and those who profess them, ensures the disease that causes pathological fundo's, is diminished significantly. it's a societal problem.
never mind i think ... ( 20 hours ago by bkstudios1990)
never mind i think you got the rest



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