What Happens When a Narcissist Becomes a Church Leader??? - Dr. Sam Vaknin

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When a narcissist becomes a church leader "his continued proximity to God confers on him authority." Priests, leaders of the congregation, preachers, evangelists, " when they are narcissists, derive authority from their allegedly privileged relationship with God. Religious authority allows the narcissist to indulge his sadistic urges and to exercise his misogynism freely and openly. Such a narcissist is likely to taunt and torment his followers, hector and chastise them, humiliate and berate them, abuse them spiritually, or even sexually. The narcissist whose source of authority is religious is looking for obedient and unquestioning slaves upon whom to exercise his capricious and wicked mastery. The narcissist transforms even the most innocuous and pure religious sentiments into a cultish ritual and a virulent hierarchy. He preys on the gullible. His flock become his hostages. Religious authority also secures the narcissist's Narcissistic Supply. His coreligionists, members of his congregation, his parish, his constituency, his audience - are transformed into loyal and stable Sources of Narcissistic Supply. They obey his commands, heed his admonitions, follow his creed, admire his personality, applaud his personal traits, satisfy his needs (sometimes even his carnal desires), revere and idolize him. Moreover, being a part of a "bigger thing" is very gratifying narcissistically. Being a particle of God, being immersed in His grandeur, experiencing His power and blessings first hand, communing with him - are all Sources of unending Narcissistic Supply. The narcissist becomes God by observing His commandments, following His instructions, loving Him, obeying Him, succumbing to Him, merging with Him, communicating with Him - or even by defying him (the bigger the narcissist's enemy - the more grandiosely important the narcissist feels).Like everything else in the narcissist's life, he mutates God into a kind of inverted narcissist. God becomes his dominant Source of Supply. He forms a personal relationship with this overwhelming and overpowering entity - in order to overwhelm and overpower others. He becomes God vicariously, by the proxy of his relationship with Him. He idealizes God, then devalues Him, then abuses Him. This is the classic narcissistic pattern and even God himself cannot escape it." ( Dr. SAM VAKNIN: http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html)
"But know this, says saint Paul that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jan'nes and Jam'bres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was". Dr. SAM VAKNIN: http://samvak.tripod.com/index.html

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• narcissism
• borderline
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[ktmorgan777]

sounds a lot like Harold Camping the guy who keeps predicting the end of the world.

[SgtMajHorseMarine]

There's a problem with the audio within the area of reading from Paul just before the verse "resisted Moses." It sounds as though there's characters being read rather than words. I hope this helps you.

[Hawaiiansky11]

Sounds like that sick MF Warren Jeffs (Jeffers??) - the Utah scumbag hot for little girls.

[Hawaiiansky11]

we had a pastor like this...terrible. I think this might be what Elton John mean in the song "Levon"

[mnecomom]

The Emergent church.

[JaelHouseProductions]

This is awesome....says it all!!!

[yahwehslilgirl]

Even if this does occur, and I know that it does because I lived through it, if the "follower" - who probably had been conditioned previously by another narcissist - believes with her whole heart in her God, He will rescue her out of the narcissist's clutches, if she shows love, one to another. So the weakness which he saw in her can be called upon for strength. God is alive and well and sees all. God Bless.

[GodsGraceMyFreedom]

What Happens When a Narcissist Becomes a Church Leader? The birthing of yet another cult. If a person is not called by God to that leadership position, thinking of it as merely a career choice the a 'cult' of some sort is all it can be

[UniversalAgent]

If ???