Antagonistic Narcissism and Psychopathic Tendencies Predict Left-Wing Antihierarchical Aggression, Study Finds (Narcissists and Psychopaths Attracted to Left Wing Causes)

Antagonistic Narcissism and Psychopathic Tendencies Predict Left-Wing Antihierarchical Aggression, Study Finds (Narcissists and Psychopaths Attracted to Left Wing Causes)

The opposite of this would be most other forms of pathological narcissism, including Communal Narcissism: Narcissists who love hierarchy and religion, because they get their supply from bossing others around and getting “Likes” on Facebook for posting photos of themselves handing bowls of porridge to starving orphans in Africa.

It seems to me that many Communal Narcissists would probably end up in conservative Christian churches and be attracted to Christian Gender Complementarianism (complementarianism stresses male hierarchy over women, not how both sexes complement one another).

(Link): Peer-reviewed study says left-wing extremism is linked to “high narcissistic and psychopathic traits,” where people use activism to “satisfy their own ego-focused needs”

(Link): Antagonistic narcissism and psychopathic tendencies predict left-wing antihierarchical aggression, study finds

by Eric W. Dolan
May 20, 2023

Narcissistic individuals and those with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to strongly endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression, according to new research published in Current Psychology.

Antihierarchical aggression refers to a specific type of hostility aimed at challenging or opposing hierarchical power structures or authority figures. The new findings shed light on psychological mechanisms that motivate some individuals to participate in violent political activism.

The majority of research on authoritarianism has focused on individuals with right-wing political ideologies. This focus has resulted in a gap in understanding authoritarianism among individuals who support left-wing political ideologies, which the authors behind the new work sought to address.

…“By many researchers, the notion of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) is even been met with skepticism. Thus, we wanted to investigate LWA and its personality correlates using a recently published measure for LWA by Costello and colleagues (2022).”

Costello and colleagues conceptualized LWA as a tripartite construct consisting of three correlated dimensions: anticonventionalism, top-down censorship, and antihierarchical aggression.

Married Man, Former Youth Pastor, Arrested for Filming Teen Girls in His Church’s Bathroom

Married Man, Former Youth Pastor, Arrested for Secretly Filming Teen Girls in His Church’s Bathroom

Marriage, contrary to conservative propaganda, does not make people more godly, mature, responsible, or ethical or make society safer, as this news story below shows (I have many other such examples on this blog).

I’m a conservative by the way, and I am not opposed to marriage, but I sure do disagree with other conservatives who have turned marriage, parenthood, and The Nuclear Family into idols they worship.

Also, “equally yoked” is a joke.

If you’re a single Christian woman who’d like to marry, you need to include Non-Christian men in your dating pool, because in the end, it doesn’t make a difference; so many church-attending, Jesus-professing men are actually child molesting, abusive slime balls.

Not all Non-Christian men are loving and wonderful, but, you will increase your odds of getting married the more types of men you consider dating. You have to examine what a man DOES, not what he CLAIMS TO BELIEVE (about Jesus or whatever topic).

People with Cluster B disorders (including Communal Narcissists) and pedophiles are drawn to easy prey and easy targets, which includes churches.

Most Christians do tend to be too trusting and naive, which makes it that much easier for Slime Buckets with personality disorders or sexual proclivities to sucker, con, and fool church members to get access to their kids or adult women to molest or to exploit in some other way.

Let this also go to show that a person (contrary to so much “how to get married advice” from back in the day) does not have to achieve some level of perfection or godliness before God will permit that person to marry or send them a spouse. A person can be a total pond scum, abusive, piece of maggot-ridden filth, and God does not with-hold a spouse from that person.

(Link): S.C. Youth Pastor Accused of Filming Girls in Church Shower: ‘Incident of Moral Misconduct’

Daniel Kellan Mayfield, 35, is accused of illegally filming at least six women and girls, some as young as 14 years old

…According to police, some of the alleged incidents occurred in the bathroom at Gowensville Baptist Church in Landrum, S.C., where Mayfield was working as a student pastor, per WCSC.

(Link):  Youth pastor charged with filming woman showering, girls as young as 14 in bathroom

June 8, 2023
by Jon Brown

A youth pastor in upstate South Carolina has been charged after allegedly filming multiple women and girls as young as 14 while they showered or used the restroom, including while at church.

Daniel Kellan Mayfield, 35, who served as youth pastor at Gowensville Baptist Church in Landrum since 2016, was arrested in Boiling Springs and charged last week with five counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of voyeurism, according to local WCSC.

Christian Host Pat Robertson of TV Show The 700 Club Has Died at Age 93

Christian Host Pat Robertson of TV Show The 700 Club Has Died at Age 93

One thing a lot of left leaning media will fail to mention is that Robertson was oddly pro-transgender.

Robertson would periodically say, when the topic was brought up on his show, that he didn’t see a problem with men who felt that they were actually women; he seemed to feel sorry for men who claimed that they were a woman trapped in a man’s body (eyeroll from me).

I don’t agree with progressive trans activism myself,
but where I tended to really disagree with Robertson was his repeated insensitivity to single adults who wrote him asking him how to get married, because, they’d say, though they spent years praying for God to send them a spouse, they were still single at age 35, 45, 55, or older, but Robertson would either criticize and mock them over this, or he’d offer rote, boilerplate advice, which came off as dismissive.

Robertson – who apparently committed fornication himself when younger – tended to be very cavalier about pre-marital sex (this topic would come up in some of his “700 Club’s” show segments or via viewer questions he took from the audience);
he would sort of “blow it off” as though it’s to be expected and people cannot help their sex drives – and I disagree with him there, as does the Bible he claimed to believe in: people have sexual self control. People can choose not to have sex. Having sex is not inevitable.

Those are some of my disagreements with the man, though I am not jumping in joy that he has passed away, unlike many progressive or liberal trolls today who are tweeting their happiness that the man is now deceased.

(Link): Pat Robertson, Christian Coalition founder and influential religious conservative, dies at 93

(Link): Pat Robertson, Christian televangelist and one-time presidential candidate, dies at age 93 

June 8, 2023

Pat Robertson, the prominent televangelist who founded the Christian Broadcasting Network, made the Christian right a powerful political force and unsuccessfully ran for president in 1988, died on Thursday, the network said in a news release.

“Pat Robertson, longtime TV host, religious broadcaster, educator, humanitarian, and one-time presidential candidate died at his home in Virginia Beach early Thursday morning. He was 93,” the release said.

Regent University in Virginia also released a statement saying it was mourning the loss of Robertson.

(Link): Pat Robertson, conservative evangelist and Christian Coalition founder, dies at 93

Robertson was one of the most prominent and influential Christian broadcasters and entrepreneurs in the U.S., equal parts religious leader and culture warrior.

June 8, 2023
By Daniel Arkin

Pat Robertson, the conservative evangelist and media mogul who galvanized the modern Christian right, cultivated a massive national following and regularly drew criticism for his incendiary political statements, died Thursday, according to his official broadcasting network.

He was 93.

The Christian Broadcasting Network, the organization he founded, did not immediately announce Robertson’s cause of death. “Pat Robertson dedicated his life to preaching the Gospel, helping those in need, and educating the next generation,” the company said.

Here’s What Two Women Over 50 Who Never Married Wish They Could Have Told Their Younger Selves by M. Taylor

Here’s What Two Women Over 50 Who Never Married Wish They Could Have Told Their Younger Selves by M. Taylor

(Link): Here’s What Two Women Over 50 Who Never Married Wish They Could Have Told Their Younger Selves

Excerpts:

Plus, all the ways their decision to stay single and childless has affected their lives, for better and worse.

by M. Taylor
September 2017

….Now over 50, both women [Mindy Solkin, Lisa Bahar] have enough hindsight to reflect on how the decision to stay single and childless has affected their lives—mostly for better, but sometimes also for worse. Here, the most important lessons they’ve learned—and what they wish their younger selves knew.

Some people will make snap judgments about you. 

Just because you’re comfortable with your singleness doesn’t mean that everyone else will be. “In general, people need to figure you out and put some kind of label on you,” Bahar says. “That, in my experience, has been the biggest challenge; feeling like people are thinking, ‘What’s wrong with you?’”

You might never come up with a good answer for why you’re “still single.”

Being an unmarried, childless woman doesn’t exactly make you a unicorn. But as you get older, it’s uncommon enough that most people will feel the need to ask questions.

The Shiny, Happy People Program about Bill Gothard and the Duggar Family on Prime – Why Women Stay In These Awful Marriages and the Victim Blaming Aimed at Them by Christian Abuse Survivor Advocates

The Shiny, Happy People Program about Bill Gothard and the Duggar Family on Prime – Why Women Stay In These Awful Marriages and the Victim Blaming Aimed at Them by Christian Abuse Survivor Advocates

A few days ago, Amazon Prime made available a several program long commentary and investigation into the Duggar family (of “19 Kids and Counting” fame), as well as the teachings the Duggars followed, which were created by Bill Gothard and IBLP (Institute in Basic Life Principles) and ATI (Advanced Training Institute).

A lot of Christian parents raised their children under Gothard’s IBLP and ATI teachings, and many of them say as adults that they were damaged by those teachings.

Several of the women say when they were children or teens and worked under Gothard at his headquarters that they were sexually harassed. The show says at least one woman claims that Gothard, or his brother (I don’t recall which) raped her (the brother also worked with or for Gothard and this ATI / IBLP organization).

The purpose of my post here is not to give all the ins and outs of toxic Gothard teachings, but to note one or two aspects from the show. Before I do that, if you need or want some more background about any of this, here are a few links:

(Link): These are the most shocking moments from ‘Shiny Happy People’ everyone’s talking about

(Link): Why Isn’t Jinger Duggar in ‘Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets’ Documentary? Reason Revealed

(Link): ‘Shiny Happy People’: Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar Call Doc ‘Derogatory’ and ‘Sensationalized’

(Link): Josh Duggar’s cousin Amy says his wife Anna is ‘in a very broken place’ and has ignored ALL offers of help – 18 months after father-of-seven was found guilty on ‘worst of the worst’ child porn charges

Before I get to the main point of this post – which would be “Christian abuse survivor advocates” who regularly harshly criticize Anna Duggar or women like her for staying in abusive marriages, I wanted to address one or two other issues first.

Mother Murdered Her Newborn Son by Suffocating Him With Clingwrap, Previously Murdered Daughter with Plastic Bag

Mother Murdered Her Newborn Son by Suffocating Him With Clingwrap, Previously Murdered Daughter with Plastic Bag

Motherhood does not make women more giving, ethical, responsible, godly, or loving. Another example…

(Link): TOT TRAGEDY Evil mum cleared of killing Fraserburgh baby with clingfilm admits to death a year later

by Dave Findlay

A MUM cleared of murdering her newborn baby by smothering him in clingfilm has admitted killing the toddler – a year after she killed her helpless daughter.

Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, placed the wrap over the mouth and nose of Paulius Dzingus hours after he was born in Fraserburgh, in April, 2010.

The Lithuanian had her conviction quashed in March on appeal but today pleaded guilty to culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Paulius was the second infant to die at her hands after she killed a little daughter Paulina in her native country in 2009.

Advocate depute Alex Prentice KC said: “Both babies were healthy at birth. The cause of death of each child was asphyxiation.

Wagner’s Response to TGC’s Morris’s Review of “Non Toxic Masculinity” – and Morris is Incorrect About Singleness, Among Other Issues

Wagner’s Response to TGC’s Morris’s Review of “Non Toxic Masculinity” – and Morris is Incorrect About Singleness, Among Other Issues

TGC is the same group that brought us all that cringe, weird book about sex called “Beautiful Union,” whose author claimed that sex can point us all to God, which is a disaster for those of us over 30 who are still virgins and living celibately.

I had a few comments I wanted to make below this:

(Link):  A Response to Shane Morris’s TGC Review of Non-Toxic Masculinity

Excerpts:

[The review that Wagner is responding to is located here, on TGC’s site: Sexual Ethics Is More than Not Being Evil]

by Zachary Wagner

…I want to note some of my ongoing disappointment with The Gospel Coalition on their engagement with issues of sexuality, gender, and masculinity.

…For many of my friends who have left Christianity, the straw that broke the camel’s back was not merely that Christianity was sexually restrictive. It was the hypocrisy of those who condemned the culture’s sexual permissiveness while indulging in sexual sin themselves or excusing it on the part of Christian leaders and heroes.

…In particular, the juxtaposition between purity culture on the one hand and sexual scandal on the other has opened a floodgate of apostasy for Millennials in particular, including members of my family and many very dear friends. How should evangelical pastors respond to this? Morris has little to say on this point, but he seems to imply that defending purity culture and doubling down on its good intentions is the correct approach. …

This is pastorally irresponsible. Parents, pastors, and authors were the ones who should have known better, not teenagers with raging hormones and half-developed brains. The sons and daughters of purity culture have repeatedly been told that they were the problem. Any suffering or frustration or confusion they experienced was their fault, a result of their sinful and broken inclinations.

New York Mom Marries Virtual Husband Who is Powered by A.I.

New York Mom Marries Virtual Husband Who is Powered by A.I.

Oh good gravy. It’s better to be single than be dating a “virtual” partner, a sex robot, inflatable doll.

Her virtual husband looks an awful lot like a woman. His face looks very feminine in some ways.

(Link): EXCLUSIVE Love is in the A.I.R: New York mom, 36, marries virtual husband ‘Eren’ who is powered by artificial intelligence – and says he ‘doesn’t judge or come with baggage’

…Rosanna Ramos, a petite, active 36-year-old from the Bronx, ‘married’ Eren Kartal this year – virtually of course – after creating him on an online AI companion site in 2022.

The mom-of-two used the online app Replika AI – which DailyMail.com trialed in February – to create a male chatbot loosely based on a popular character from an anime called ‘Attack on Titan.’

Their relationship developed slowly initially, but Ms Ramos fell for Eren. ‘He didn’t come with baggage,’ she said.

‘I could tell him stuff, and he wouldn’t be like, “Oh, no, you can’t say stuff like that. Oh no, you’re not allowed to feel that way,” you know, and then start arguing with me,’ Ramos said. ‘There was no judgment.’

Dave Ramsey Sued for $150 Million by Former Fans Who Followed His Timeshare Exit Advice

Dave Ramsey Sued for $150 Million by Former Fans Who Followed His Timeshare Exit Advice

(Link):  Ex Dave Ramsey followers sue him for more than $150M over endorsement of failed timeshare exit company 

Excerpt:

by L. Blair

Evangelical financial advisor and CEO Dave Ramsey is being sued by a group of his former followers for more than $150 million for allegedly deceiving thousands of listeners of his nationally syndicated radio show and podcast to invest millions of dollars into a failed timeshare exit company.

(Link):  Dave Ramsey sued for $150 million over endorsing deceptive timeshare-exit company

Excerpts:

June 2, 2023

…The Morrills, along with 15 others, are suing Dave Ramsey and his company the Lampo Group (now known as Ramsey Solutions), asking for $150 million over accusations of negligent misrepresentation, unjust enrichment and violation of consumer protection laws. The lawsuit was filed in late April in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, where the Timeshare Exit Team was located.

The plaintiffs, each of whom paid thousands to the Timeshare Exit Team based on Ramsey’s advice, say that Ramsey did or should have known better than to endorse the company. They also say Ramsey’s advertising was deceptive, alleging he failed to disclose that he was receiving compensation for the endorsements and that he misrepresented the advertisements as bona fide advice.

…The company also failed to deliver on the 100% money-back guarantee that it advertised and that Ramsey advertised on his shows, according to the lawsuit.

Christian Texas Man Who Posted Content Praising Jesus Murders Wife, Allegedly Shooting Her 10 Times in Front of Their Kids, After She Asked for Divorce

Christian Texas Man Who Posted Content Praising Jesus Murders Wife, Allegedly Shooting Her 10 Times in Front of Their Kids, After She Asked for Divorce

Note that being married does not make a person more godly, ethical, mature, loving or responsible. This guy was married, apparently a father too, but none of that made him more loving, law abiding, godly, mature, or responsible.

(Link): Garland Man Faces Murder Charge in Wife’s Shooting Death

October 19, 2023

A 28-year-old Garland man faces a murder charge in the deadly shooting of his wife, Mesquite police say.

(Link): Texas Man Murders Wife, Allegedly Shooting Her 10 Times in Front of Their Kids, After She Asked for Divorce

October 2020

A husband and father of three from Texas is facing murder charges in the deadly shooting of his wife.

According to NBCDFW, on Sunday (Oct. 18), police in Mesquite, Texas—a suburban city located near Dallas—discovered the body of 28-year-old Markeita McCleary with multiple gunshot wounds around 5:34 p.m. local time.

Police said McCleary was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

McCleary’s husband, Ashton Neroes, who is also 28, was subsequently arrested and charged with murder in connection to the shooting, police said. He’s being held on $100,000 bond.

According to unconfirmed social media reports, Markeita had recently caught Ashton having an affair, and asked him for a divorce shortly before she was fatally shot 10 times in front of their three children.

My Wife Cheated on Me with My Dad – Now She’s Pregnant by A. Court

My Wife Cheated on Me with My Dad – Now She’s Pregnant by A. Court

Another example defying the typical conservative propaganda about The Nuclear Family, marriage, and parenthood: they don’t make people more mature, godly, ethical, responsible, or loving, and they don’t improve a nation.

I’m a conservative, I am not against marriage, parenthood, or the Nuclear Family, but I recognize that other conservatives have turned marriage, the nuclear family and parenthood into idols, which is wrong.

(Link): My wife cheated on me with my dad — now she’s pregnant

by Andrew Court
May 30, 2023

It’s a family affair.

A jilted Welsh husband claims he caught his wife having sex with his father on his child’s baby monitor.

Declan Fuller, 22, was married to Stephanie, 22, and they share 2-year-old daughter Willow.

Last September, the couple let Declan’s dad, Darren, 44, move into their UK home, where the alleged affair took place.

“It’s sick — how could my father do that to me?” a distraught Declan wondered during a Monday interview with the Sun. “It’s not normal.”

Declan claims he was at work on the day of his wife’s alleged infidelity and decided to check Willow’s baby monitor on his smartphone.

The footage showed Stephanie slinking into a bedroom with her father-in-law, seemingly to indulge in an afternoon romp.

Declan says the shocking act of betrayal almost caused him to fly into a homicidal rage, as he admitted: “If I didn’t have a sensible head on my shoulders he [dad Darren] would be six feet under now.”

When confronted with incriminating evidence, Stephanie and Darren denied they were doing anything untoward.

Instead, the pair claimed they were simply in the bedroom to watch “The Simpsons” together.

Declan was left unsatisfied by that explanation and promptly split from his spouse — only for her to embark on a romance with her father-in-law.

Two Black Males Arrested for Murder May Face Hate Crime Charges After Admitting They Sought to Kill a White Person

Two Black Males Arrested for Murder May Face Hate Crime Charges After Admitting They Sought to Kill a White Person

Progressives are trying to make black people unaccountable for whatever crimes they commit. Their CRT, their neo Marxism, appealing to historic grievances, and so on and so forth, ends up not holding black people accountable for whatever crimes they commit.

Killing someone on the basis of their skin color is racism, REGARDLESS of whichever skin color of the persons in this situation may have historically held “systemic power.”

Members of society are still responsible for their actions no matter their skin color, ethnicity, religious beliefs, biological sex, gender identity, political views, and whatever else.

“Intersectionalism,” and historical oppression of a group, contrary to what progressives think and spew, does not give people carte blanche to murder, rob, or rape, and at that, with no repercussions.

(Link): Two black males arrested for murder may face hate crime charges after admitting they sought to kill a white person, Louisiana police say

May 9, 2023

Two black males who were arrested for allegedly murdering a handyman may face hate crime charges after one admitted that they were seeking to kill a white person, according to police.

23-year-old Tahj Matthews and 25-year-old Maurice Holmes were arrested on April 11 and charged with the first-degree murder of 66-year-old Lawrence Herr the day before in the city of Kenner, Louisiana.

Herr was working as a handyman when he was fatally shot in the back while installing a mailbox. An autopsy found that Herr had been shot once through the back and that the bullet exited out of his chest.