WHY THE CLERGY IS FULL OF PSYCHOPATHS | 2005-03-12
A psychopath, a.k.a., sociopath, is a person who is totally incapable of empathy or guilt.
Which means that the average intelligent psychopath can look like he feels a lot more guilt than you can.
A normal person has odd reactions. Sometimes a person will hear of the death of a loved one and hardly react. A psychopath will always show just the right reaction at the right time.
The psychopath has spent his entire life LEARNING to react exactly right at exactly the right time. You depend entirely on your real emotions, which is a poor substitute for a lifetime of study.
And study begins early. A psychopath knows there is a feeling called "guilt" from an early age. He knows people around him expect a certain reaction to this alien concept. So, by trial and error, he learns what is the RIGHT reaction.
The average person seldom reacts just the way he should. He reacts in ways that may strike others as insincere or wrong. After all, his reactions are real, they are concentrated on what has happened or what he really feels. None of that interferes with the life of a psychopath. He hones his reactions to perfection.
No normal person can ever attain the perfection a psychopath learns as a matter of course.
Successful preachers have exactly the right emotion at exactly the right time.
My family has been in church work for an awfully long time, and this will be news to nobody who has that sort of familiarity with the workings of mainline churches.
Pat Robertson strikes me as such an obvious psychopath that I simply cannot believe others don't see it. But I have a lot of background in interrogation and other fields, so maybe they don't.
Every Catholic bishop knew about the boy-rapes. Many if not most of them caused thousands of those rapes by moving around molesting priests. All the protestants try to blame this on Catholic celibacy.
I blame it on the fact that to get ahead in the clergy you have to have the special expertise of a psychopath. All mainline churches go along with anything they need to go along with. If they need to be fanatical about it, they are fanatical about it.
That's what psychopaths do.