Believers are making religion harmful and believers are turning religion into a mental illness.

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The religious definitions of “absolute truth” and “absolute certainty” are rejected by me because there is no scientific confirmation for these pious concepts. 17 Cognitive Distortions to Know: Magnification/minimization: Magnifying the negative and minimizing the positive. 2. Should/must statements: Subjective demands of how things should or must be. 3. Emotional reasoning: Accepting your emotions as fact. 4. Overgeneralizing: Drawing broad conclusions based on singular experiences. 5. Labeling/mislabeling: Using inaccurate or exaggerated language to describe your experiences. 6. Blaming/denying: Refusing to accept accountability and instead projecting that onto others. 7. Splitting: Thinking in extreme terms, with no potential for a gray area. 8. Jumping to conclusions: Making determinations based on limited information. 9. Filtering: Honing in only on the negative or detrimental aspects of a situation or experience. 10. Personalizing: Assuming situations that are not remotely about you are entirely about you. 11. Double standard: Having incongruent standards for others versus yourself. 12. Fallacy of fairness: Thinking that all situations must be fair for all people. 13. Control fallacy: Believing you or others are at fault for something that's completely uncontrollable. 14. Change fallacy: Wanting others to change to meet your standards. 15. Always being right: Never wanting to admit that you're in the wrong. 16. Heaven's reward fallacy: The false belief that hard work always pays off or that all sacrifices or compromises you make should be rewarded. 17. Self-serving bias What it means: When you think that you are responsible for your successes but not your setbacks. What it looks like: Taking credit for acing an exam but chocking up failing a quiz to being up late studying. Your knowledge was tested both times.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support