The Toxicity Of Religious Belief Systems
However, this assertion of his really caught my eye, as it starkly highlights the essential difference between the cognitive makeup of normal decent people and the pathology of religious (or other right-wing) authoritarian followers:
I wanted to assume, charitably, that some religious authoritarians were merely cloistered and unreflective, and had not really thought through the logical consequences of their positions.
The issue isn’t inattention or unreflectiveness. Religious authoritarian followers and other sorts of right-wing authoritarian followers have a cognitive makeup in which there simply is no such thing as objective reality–whether logical or empirical–that demands any sort of consistency whatsoever. It is hard for people whose minds aren’t warped in that particular way to grasp, but the notion that an assertion of fact has to be true or false simply doesn’t exist for them. When you are operating in such a cognitive regime, what normal decent people see as denial, hypocrisy, inconsistency, petulant demands for special privileges, and lying are indistinguishable from their opposites.
It was like John Kyl and “that was not intended as a factual statement”. When *nothing* is intended as a factual statement–indeed, when there are no such things as facts–there can be no such things as hypocrisy, inconsistency, or lying. And this is what makes genuine religious belief so utterly toxic: it demands rejection at the deepest level of cognition of the very notion of fact.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/physioprof/2012/04/12/the-toxicity-of-religious-belief-systems/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
There is a link embedded in this article that goes to Batocchio's article (I just don't know how to do that)and it is also an interesting read.
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is a philosophical position:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_%28philosophy%29#Objectivism
There is much more to logic than bivalent logic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalent_logic
The message seems to be that if someone does not believe in objectivism and bivalent logic and that world consists of mere factual statements aka propositions - as "normal decent people" should believe, then they are evil (article uses litany of negative adjectives that I short as "evil"
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From your comment I see that subconsciouss is talking to you - or rather through you - loud and clear. 
From the point of view of spiritual evolution (which is in fact quite physical), psychosis is about facing and overcoming fears. And there's nothing to fear but fear itself.
From the point of view of social norms and fearfull ego, psychosis is a social stigma, a mental disease to be avoided at all costs.
So depending from the point of view, psychosis is both disease and cure.
Didn't think you could last.
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