People who are dealing with a terrible illness and are
told they are going to die go through 5 classical stages,
psychologically, known as the 5 stages of death.
But this is also true of a person dealing with religious idiots,
in which rational thought suffers a kind of death.
Thus:
1-Denial: No, they can't be that stupid and deluded. I've met
people like this and heck, I've worked with them, and they
never seemed this brainwashed. I just don't believe it.
2-Anger: What the hell, they really *are* that stupid and
brainwashed. Damn it, why do I have to deal with such
stupid people?! And look at these fools, they actually
conspire to do these really stupid things like putting
"in god we trust" on the dollar. What shitheads!
Lying little weasels!
3-Bargaining: Wait, maybe they're just victims of some
evil preacher or cult or something. Maybe they're on medication.
Maybe there is a perfectly reasonable explanation, like
they speak a different dialect of English and "god" actually
means handpuppet! I am sure of it.
4-Depression: Oh no. No, no, no they really *are* fools,
every last one of them. I've got to keep my kids, relatives,
friends, pets away from these morons or they'll be sucked in!
They're a vortex of liars and spindoctors and bullshitters,
all fully cognizant of their own paper-thin lies and games,
brainwashed during childhood and infected with that
virus called religion! And they're they majority in this
rathole country! Society is *doomed*.
5-Acceptance: All right, I admit, they are fools and they
are infected with religious stupidity. Yes, but hey, I can be free
of all that, I am quite free of it, and I will never be under their
cult-like spell or imagining invisible people. That is enough.
Rational thought is dead in them, but not in me.
~Finit~
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