The Rationalist Society will have no real impact with their current approach.

It's unclear if some clerics are religious schizophrenics or just sociopaths.

Meredith Doig and friends don't seem to understand what they're dealing with when it comes to the Christian megacult and the mentally disordered, religious schiophrenics that comprise it:

The fact that there are megacult advisory bodies in the first place demonstrates that we're regressing to the Dark Ages and that what we already have is a defacto theocracy run by mental patients.

This is strong language to be sure, but if Doig and the Reason party think that their current supplicative negotiation strategy is going to do anything positive, then they really don't understand the nature of the megacult beast. I'm left to doubt if Doig's intentions are really to bring about any change at all. Perrotet and his cohort are unequivically mentally ill.

I am not going to go to expend any serious effort to defend the term 'megacult'. Nor the term 'infideliphobia'. They're both perfectly serviceable terms that make their own definitions plain on the basis of descriptive grammar and the current cultural narratives of our society. With a PhD in philosophy, an MPhil in English and literature, and a nearly complete postgraduate level psychology degree: I have earned the right to coin neologisms.

A megacult is any cult with more than a million devotees. Christianity and its subcults or sects, for example.

I once had a putatively respectable philosopher chide me for calling Scott Morrison a mental patient. Yes, you religious, fake-academic, pseudo-intellectual nincompoop: Morrison is clearly mentally ill. He is an adult with an imaginary support/power friend and paranoid delusions about demons, and a grifter who exhibits symptoms of cluster B personality disorders like APD ass well. It doesn't get much more pathological than that. Human psychology, that is.

Many people have religious schizophrenia like many people have cancer and heart disease. They're all obviously still diseases, no matter how many people have them.

The psychosocial programmatic abuse of megacults is often irreversible, and those afflicted often exhibit lack of insight.

Do you really want to try to coherently argue that Catholicism, Anglicanism, Pentecostalism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism - and all of their batshit fundamentalist and dominionist sects - are not based on wholly delusional ideation and beliefs, and that their members are not split from reality? Moreover that those religions do not have every necessary property that is required to classify them as what they are: a very large cult?

Good luck with that.

If you're arguing with me about it and want to win on scientific evidence and coherent philosophical argumentation, then you're going to need it. You're going to need an actual miracle, in fact. And good luck with THAT.

You can't reason with mentally ill megacultist on the basis that Doig and the Rationalists are attempting to do. The ship has sailed. The damage is done. We're already in La-la land. (Australialala? The La-la Land Down Under?) Theist megacultists like Perottet and his clerical masters do not respect those not suffering the same religious schizophrenic delusions as they have. These are adults with imaginary friends and comorbid paranoid and grandiose delusions about demons and other fictions. They really believe unbelievers are controlled by demons. These are not the beliefs of mentally sound people. These are the beliefs of patients in a psychiatric ward.

Yes - Christians are that sick in the head. Don't shoot the messenger. The ones who have been bent by psychological abuse at the hands of clerics for most of their formative psychosocial development are effectively religious schizophrenics who are split from reality.

If you don't stop the megacults and keep the adult megacultists with imaginary friends and paranoid delusions out of our government, you're just peeing into the proverbial wind. Solving this kind of serious social and social-psychological problem requires concerted, aggressive, unambiguous, scientifically supported political and social action.

There's no gradualist, progressive approach to solving the religious schizophrenia pandemic. That's wishful thinking.

A supplicative letter to infideliphobes with serious mental disorders is not going to cut it. It's good for show, however. Maybe it will help advertise the Rationalist society and get them some membership fees.

If you really want to change our Parliament and get Fred Nile and the other mental patients out of it, then back Bruce Long for the Seat of Sydney, and later perhaps for Federal Parliament.

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