Church Services Are Designed to Influence You. Here’s How
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I make videos about religion from a secular perspective and try to be compassionate in the process. Here you'll find collaborations with scholars of religious studies, essays about religion and psychology, personal stories from my life as a fundamentalist Evangelical Christian turned agnostic/atheist, responses to some religious content, and more. I'm not an anti-theist and don't care about creating more atheists. I care about helping viewers critically examine ideas about religion, whether they are religious or not. Contact Drew directly at the email below (professional inquiries only, no brand offers please): [email protected] For brand sponsorship inquiries, contact the email below
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With an intuitive understanding of human psychology, churches design their services to manipulate your emotions. This is how they do it. This video is based on my experience with protestant churches in the US, but the ritual-first format can be found in Mormon, Catholic, and Orthodox churches as well. Worship services are quite effective tools of emotional and psychological manipulation, leveraging group think and emotional priming to their benefit. For many former evangelicals (and others who have deconstructed), these services created a sense of guilt, shame, or worthlessness that kept them in church long after they knew it was time to leave. For Christians, they can simulate God’s presence convincingly. Christian rituals like these are so normalized in the US that their technique of influence isn’t thought of as manipulative or even unusual, and that needs to change. It's time to deconstruct church. This is how church music manipulates you - Faith Free https://youtu.be/XoaknMByfRs -------------------------------------------FOLLOW------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gm_skeptic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GMSkeptic/ Discord: https://discord.gg/b2tABbV -------------------------------------------SUPPORT------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/GMSkeptic -------------------------------------------Resources for atheists in need------------------------------------------- Find a Secular Therapist: https://www.seculartherapy.org Recovering from Religion helps connect those who are leaving or have left their religion with support, resources and community: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/#rfr-welcome Resources for Ex-Mu’s: https://exmuslims.org/join-us/ This video contains 100% therapeutic grade skepticism.* *This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA
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