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"1. The New Testament manuscripts contain more differences than it has words:

Bart Ehrman, a former evangelical and fundamentalist, who graduated from Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College before obtaining his Masters in Divinity and PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary and now one of the world’s most respected New Testament scholars, cites a fact that has been documented by many other scholars that the New Testament manuscripts have more variants than there are words in the New Testament…well over 200,000 of them. Some scholars now count closer to 400,000 of them.

While most do not affect any doctrine, there are some that make a big difference in how it is interpreted. Dr. Ehrman explains many of these in detail in his sixth New York Times bestselling book, Misquoting Jesus, the Story Behind who Changed the Bible and Why.

If it was the intention for a perfect, all-knowing God to inspire a perfect book so that His creatures would have His word and instructions, it would be of little value unless He made sure all copies of it were also correctly copied. Surely, one should expect that a perfect God would have his word made available to every creature that is 100% accurate and not have over 200,000 variants in the copies."

Christianity should be centered upon love, not on carnal power. Jesus loves Christian and non-Christians, Jesus also loves immigrants, “illegal” immigrants, refugees, and “foreigners,” Democrats, Republicans, Socialists, and Communists. Jesus loves every person regardless of their race, religion, gender, or creed. Jesus died on the cross for all of humanity. But due in part to an obsessive political allegiance, loving others has become nearly impossible for too many Christians.

Instead of loving their neighbor as themselves, oppressive legislation has been a hallmark of some Christians’ religious practice: deporting immigrants, blocking refugees, limiting asylum, banning foreigners, prohibiting gay marriage, expanding massive incarceration, increasing global military operations, vilifying the poor, stripping environmental protections, widening voter suppression, and spewing widespread rhetoric that’s bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, ethnocentric, ignorant, and racist.

This religion often calls itself “Christianity,” but its love for Jesus has been substituted by an obsession with obtaining political, social, and economic power. The fruits of the Holy Spirit have been replaced with xenophobia, bigotry, racism, hate, and fear. And the words and actions of Jesus have been weaponized into vague platitudes of “Christianity” which look and act nothing like the person of Christ.

The god of this Christianity isn’t Jesus but is a political ideology that worships power and control above all else. And this Christianity’s enemy isn’t Satan, but is anything and anyone deemed “liberal.” Instead of following the words and actions of Christ, Christianity has idolized leaders whose words and actions are contradictory to those of Jesus.

There’s a religion whose savior was a refugee, yet it rejects refugees. Whose God embraces sojourners, yet it deports immigrants. Whose parishioners worship someone called the Prince of Peace, yet they defend violence and are pro-war. Whose hero was an ethnic minority, yet they’re complicit in white supremacy. Whose Christ was unlawfully arrested and killed by a governing empire, yet it has become nationalistic and oppressive. Whose ultimate model for behavior preached selfless sacrifice and lived humbly, but now its followers idolize political power and carnal wealth. There’s a popular type of “Christianity” that wants nothing to do with Christ other than to use His namesake to promote its own agendas."

They demonize secular people, but they are secret nonbelievers themselves. They demonize people of all of the other religions, but they like their religions more than Christianity. They demonize social justice because they are afraid of the social injustices in their own lives. They glorify the prosperity theology, but they are facing impoverishment. 

"The Abuser Profile - A description of what a typical abuser "looks like"

Alienation - The act of cutting off or interfering with an individual's relationships with others.

"Always" and "Never" Statements - "Always" and "Never" Statements are declarations containing the words "always" or "never". They are commonly used but rarely true.

Anger - People who suffer from personality disorders often feel a sense of unresolved anger and a heightened or exaggerated perception that they have been wronged, invalidated, neglected or abused.

Avoidance - The practice of withdrawing from relationships with other people as a defensive measure to reduce the risk of rejection, accountability, criticism or exposure.

Baiting - A provocative act used to solicit an angry, aggressive or emotional response from another individual.

Belittling, Condescending and Patronizing - This kind of speech is a passive-aggressive approach to giving someone a verbal put-down while maintaining a facade of reasonableness or friendliness.

Blaming - The practice of identifying a person or people responsible for creating a problem, rather than identifying ways of dealing with the problem.

Bullying - Any systematic action of hurting a person from a position of relative physical, social, economic or emotional strength.

Catastrophizing - The habit of automatically assuming a "worst case scenario" and inappropriately characterizing minor or moderate problems or issues as catastrophic events.

Chaos Manufacture - Unnecessarily creating or maintaining an environment of risk, destruction, confusion or mess.

Cheating - Sharing a romantic or intimate relationship with somebody when you are already committed to a monogamous relationship with someone else.

Chronic Broken Promises - Repeatedly making and then breaking commitments and promises is a common trait among people who suffer from personality disorders."

I grew up in a world of sexual narcissism, sexual psychopathy, sexual sociopathy, and sexual sickopathy in the crime world and I grew up in all-around narcissism, all-around psychopathy, all-around sociopathy, and all-around sickopathy in the crime world.

Here is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (speculatively constructed from McCrae, 1994, pg. 306):

High Neuroticism: Chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.

passive-aggressiveness, passiveness, contumaciousness, uncooperativeness, resentfulness, hostility, angriness, irritableness, argumentativeness, scornfulness, obstructionism, curmudgeonliness, procrastination, blamefulness, captiousness, nitpicking, contrariness, sulkiness, indecisiveness, stubbornness (Stone, 360-62).

negativism

idleness, inactiveness, indolence, laziness, slothfulness, sluggishness, clumsiness, dilatoriness, dullness, heaviness, inertness, unreadiness, slowness, dawdling, delaying, drowsiness, laggardness, lingering, malingering, slackness, carelessness, negligence, forgetfulness, tardiness, apathy, accidie, immobility, indifference, insensibility, lethargy, submissiveness, unassertiveness, unconcern, unfeelingness, oppositionalism.

* Derived from Michael Stone's (23) list of the "personality traits" of DSM-III-R Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder."