A Chicago woman claimed that she received a message from aliens: The world will end on 12/21/1954 and the aliens will rescue just a few chosen people.

Followers gave away their properties, quitted their jobs…etc. to wait for the doomsday, but nothing happened.

They didn’t want to admit that they made a mistake. To make themselves feel better, they were passionate of “evangelizing” people

Jews expected the Messiah returned with glory but Jesus died on the cross in a humiliating way

Jesus’s disciplines expected Jesus’s second coming is imminent. But nothing happened!

They didn’t want to admit the mistake, and so they declared that Jesus won’t come back until they spread the gospel to every corner of the world.

The psychological theory sounds convincing, but there is a problem.

Paul does not fit the psychological profile.

He was not one of the 12 Jesus’s disciplines.

He was happy to see the failure of the movement.

He persecuted Christian Church.

He had NO cognitive dissonance!

Humans have many psychological weaknesses.

Religious leaders use human psychological tendency to brainwash our mind.

Dr. Thompson is a forensic psychiatrist. He wrote about both Christianity and Islam

One of his jobs is to interview psycho-killers to study their innermost thought: Psychological manipulation and religious doctrine play major roles