I am no stranger to controversy. It is a weak man who allows fear of other peoples' disapproval to pin his mouth shut. I've paid a steep price for it too, if my suspicion is correct that many of the whales I've lost in the past year were offended religious people.
But that comes with the territory. In a world controlled by powerful liars, whoever fights for truth is going to have a hard life. I've been stomped into the dirt, spit on and bent over the barrel for affirming truths over falsehood since middle school. A thin wallet is the least of my bruises.
I could've reacted to these experiences in a violent way. But would hurting the very people I want to help become less deceived really be constructive? Wouldn't that defeat the point? I was like them once. Abraham Lincoln said that the best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
How do you befriend somebody in a cult? Do you tolerate it, even his constant attempts to recruit you, or do try to talk him out of it? Even though the conditioning will make him fight your every attempt? There is something to be said for either approach.
Because I have seen for myself that nobody who mentally overcomes their conditioning ever wants to return to how they were before, I am convinced extrication is the right answer. I am not content to live in a world where almost everybody is in a very old, successful end of the world cult. That's a deeply perverse state of affairs, like if Amway ruled the world or something. I love mental freedom, and I love truth. That leaves only one course of action.
Since violence is off the table, because you'd only wind up injuring the host rather than the contagion, I have undertaken the development of an antidote. The contagion itself is made out of information, so the cure is as well. I have made it as concise and approachable as I know how.
What is necessary is first to illustrate the anatomy of the contagion, how it is simply designed to motivate anybody who believes it to spread it to other people, ignore any evidence to the contrary and fight anybody who tries to remove it from them. Then, to demonstrate that the supernatural claims foundational to it's premise are false.
Below you will find everything I have written to date for this purpose:
Diagram of a Memetic Virus
The Greatest Human Ever to Live
Don't Get Tricked, Bro: How to Recognize a Cult
Jesus Predicted a First Century Return Which Did Not Occur
Evolution, Creationism and Flat Earth Cosmology
Is Evolution Really Compatible with Christianity?
What Even is Evolution by Natural Selection, Anyway? A Beginner's Guide
What the Heck are 'Abiogenesis' and 'Prebiotic Evolution'?
Substance Dualism, the Creationism of the 21st Century
Is Nature Obviously the Work of an Intelligent Designer?
What Do Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Mormonism All Agree On?
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 1
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 2
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 3
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 4
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 5
What Does the Bible Say About the Shape of the Earth? Part 6
I am probably forgetting some, and will add to the list as I remember them. Any help you guys can supply in that respect will be much appreciated.
Stay Cozy!