How does paranoia infiltrate religions...?

...by forcing you to "throw the baby out with the bathwater"?

August 1, 2016

By forcing you to “throw the baby out with the bathwater”? A demonstration, by example, of the delusional contagion of paranoia.

"Religion is the mind conscious of its essence (…). The finite mind, in defining itself as finite, defines itself as infinite in relation to the Spirit (…). The finite mind makes the infinite Spirit its object, knows it to be its essence."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion.

Preamble

It took me a while to write this short piece; its complexity led me back to the subtle, sophisticated, paranoiac distortion of language and to the biblical episode of "The Tower of Babel": believing they speak the same language, humans no longer understand each other, and divide.

And the more I delve into my reflections, the more I realize that it is primarily language that paranoiac psychosis destroys in order to dissociate humans and lead them to kill each other.

We live in the age of the Tower of Babel, where everything is mostly confusion.

Tower of Babel

Shortly after the Flood, when they all spoke the same language, the men reached a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

There, they set out on their own to build a city and a tower whose top reached to the sky, thus provoking God, by pretending to be him.

Then God confused their language so that they could not understand one another, and scattered them over the face of the earth.

Construction ceases. The city is named Babel, often likened to the sinister Babylon.

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