Why are Pentecostals So Self-Destructive?

Many on this board have noticed that Pentecostals regularly self-destruct. They go on for days – even weeks – as rational people in their normal lives, but inevitably, they will explode, lose their cool, and destroy something in their lives. The reason for this is that they are addicted to a Life Changing Transformation accompanied by an intense emotional ejaculation. Recall the central experience of Pentecostals: speaking in other tongues under emotional hypnosis accompanied often by a violent emotional release. I have made the analogy to “receiving the Holy Ghost” as modern Pentecostals experience it as a psychosexual orgasm.

However, this life changing experience is addictive in many ways. Like drug addicts, one feels such an intense high the first time, that he spends the rest of his life chasing after that first high, so he needs the drug in higher and higher doses to get the emotional high. The problem with this state is that intense emotions tell a normal person that something is dangerous. Whether it be love, hate, or anger, most take intense feelings as something to control and monitor, not something to inflame to destruction. However, since the Pentecostal’s defining religious experience is an emotional explosion in speaking in tongues under hypnosis, he cannot admit that unbridled emotions are dangerous; he sees them as something to experience regularly - a Life Transforming experience is good, if accompanied by strong passions. This might not be articulated as such, but that is the basis of their actions. In some cases, we can go through occasional life transformations, but to do this on a regular basis promotes instability and destruction because the person cannot commit to a plan of action in life and is continuously searching for striking Gold with the next Life Transformation Experience. Now, take this to addictive levels: the Pentecostal is bored UNLESS he is blowing up emotionally on a regular basis. So, where does this lead the Pentecostal? He can blow up in church in psychosexual emotional releases “at the altar.” Where else can he get these intense emotions? He might pursue sexual promiscuity with the accompanying risk, followed by an intense moment of “repenting at the altar.” Where else can he get his emotional high? He can self-destruct on a regular basis, thus promoting intense feelings of risk, failure, fights, monetary damage, which in themselves produce strong emotions, followed by another trip to the altar to “get the victory over the devil attacking him with all these problems” as he shouts, dances, screams and yells in a victory march. What is another way to get these intense emotional ejaculations? He can instigate trouble at work; get his boss angry to the point of putting his job in jeopardy. He can instigate fights among the people in church and cause a ruckus to get some excitement going.

In all these cases, the desire for a Life Changing Transformation can be a Destructive Life Changing Transformation, when this end is pursued vigorously and recklessly, as the Pentecostal will do. So, this is why there are regular splits, fights, and breaks in friendship and cooperation among Pentecostals. It is similar to the Death Wish in that they hope for destruction because of the intense feelings and emotional outbursts it will cause. They are addicted to strong emotions on the psychosexual level of intensity. There are only so many things in life that can give a person this that are constructive. After they exhaust the constructive emotional outlets, they get bored and want more; then, all that is left is destructive pursuits of emotional ejaculation. One can think about a nasty car wreck where rubberneckers look on; this is an “exciting” thing to see – body parts scattered about the highway. This is the morbid truth about seeking after intense emotional experiences.

I have not met any Pentecostal that does not regularly self-destruct. If they do not, they are probably not practicing Pentecostalism. This is one reason why Pentecostals can be dangerous. Making friends with them can cause a ruckus because they are looking for emotional highs. When they exhaust the constructive emotions of friendship, all is left is the destructive outlets of emotional ejaculation. Like the rubbernecker that wishes to see body parts all over the road in excitement, so does the Pentecostal destroy the things around him. He is addicted to a psychosexual orgasm, and intense emotions as the central part of his being, his religion, and yes, his entire life.

JPI

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