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SusheeMonsterMy head canon says that televangelists like Kenneth Copeland have this quote mounted on their wall.
It's a nice affirmation to return home to, after a long day of grifting their congregation.
If only, but that would require levels of self awareness (never mind empathy for those they fuck over) which they could never possess..
They’re self-aware, they just dgaf. Charlatans, every last one of them.
I honestly don't know that they are, not to the point where they would consider themselves evil, or even as causing misery to anyone, these kinds of people get high on the smell of their own farts, and almost certainly see themselves as redeemers of some sort, it's all about feeding their ego.
L. Ron Hubbard knew. The Vatican knows.
In my small, underserved, rural area, preachers and flock came at me to cudgel me with the Bible about virtuous and unsavory women types, lgbtqia, etc. i told them their Christ uttered nothing about any of that, but had plenty to say about adultery, hypocrites, vipers, dens of thieves, and then I asked them of adultery in the Bible isn’t condemned for men and women. They begrudgingly admitted it does. So then I asked their preachers, in front of some members, why they never spoke about the local norm of men having one woman at home and several “side dishes,” including themselves. Every time I got hammered by someone for this, I reiterated my question. People stopped talking Bible to me and complained I talked it too much. Go figure.
Not saying any of that is ok in any way, or that they're right, but none of it means that they would ever acknowledge themselves as evil. You and I seeing them for what they are doesn't mean they ever will (mostly because they don't see the people they oppress as fellow humans).
Do you really think Hubbard or the pope would ever hang a quote that condemns them and their respective churches to hell for their exploits on their wall?
Do you really think Hubbard or the pope would ever hang a quote that condemns them and their respective churches to hell for their exploits on their wall?
Nope but I think they very well know what they are.
We'll never know I guess, you do give them more credit for seeing what they do as wrong, than I do though..
In my perspective, knowing exactly what one is and seeing it as right or wrong aren’t always a pair. Some psychology professionals don’t differentiate between psychopathy and sociopathy; others say aspd persons know what they do is wrong, and do it anyway but psychopaths do not. Either way, neither personality seems to admit knowing exactly what they are, too professionals or legal employees, for reasons.
knowing exactly what one is and seeing it as right or wrong aren’t always a pair.
I think that's a good summation of the point I was trying to make, and I agree with the rest too (as for the reasons they won't admit it - probably good ol conative dissonance, so back to the difference between knowing something is wrong, and acknowledging it), though I try to avoid naming any disorders since I'm not qulified to.
And thank you, too, it's a really interesing topic that I'm not sure even the experts know the whole answers to (if they did, you'd hope we wouldn't still be dealing with such abusers and exploiters), the human brain is a hell of a drug lol
No, I don’t think experts really know 100%.
Wrt cognitive dissonance: maybe, I’m more inclined to think they don’t admit it mostly to avoid consequences, legal or otherwise.
It’s been a pleasure, friend.
They’re self-aware, they just dgaf. Charlatans, every last one of them.