On 1/22/2013 9:58 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:01:52 -0500, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
>>> In fact, my most severe addiction (or better, compulsion as it gives me
>>> not even short-time positive feelings of satisfaction, only mental
>>> pain)
>>> is googling several times a day for the catchwords "sin" or "hell", to
>>> land up on Christian fundamentalist websites telling me that I, as a
>>> homosexual unbeliever, am heading straight towards a place and state
>>> infinitely worse than Auschwitz! Websites which tell me that even the
>>> faintest hunch of independent, individualist thinking is nothing less
>>> than spitting into the face of God Almighty, unforgivable unless I
>>> surrender to Fundamentalist doctrine and become a robotic slave of what
>>> they call "Jesus Christ". There must be tens of thousands of such
>>> websites, also in German language... and I'm simply addicted to
>>> religiously induced fear!
>>
>> You must stop Googling "sin" and "hell," and stay away from
>> fundamentalist Web sites.  Why torture yourself?  See if there are any
>> atheist, humanist, or freethought groups in your community; they can
>> help you deal with social surroundings that condemn you for who you are.
>
> It's easy to say "well, stop doing that, then" - but as he says, it's a
> compulsion, and something that it sounds like he's seeking help for.
>
Yes, I understand that. But that sort of compulsion has to be "rooted" 
on some level in a fear that these things might be true. And, that is 
the single hardest thing, even for people that completely give up on 
religion, to break. First step though has to be recognizing that its all 
BS from square one. Then, its still hard, and its not likely to help 
that a large percentage of mental health people may be just as roped in 
to the nonsense, so can't, themselves, completely break away from some 
level of belief in it.

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