This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Can you trust people who hear the voice of god in their head and demand other people follow the words of their god?”

Sure. You can trust them to live in a world of delusion that creates a barrier between their internal narrative and the shared reality we all live in.

You can trust that they will defend their delusion to an extreme that could dramatically harm people who do not support or challenge it.

You can trust that if you’re not hyper-vigilant about their actions and attitudes, they will eventually devise a justification for doing you harm when you least expect it.

You can trust that if you don’t support their delusions, they will trash-talk you to their peers and give them all the reasons they need to become toxic toward you.

You can trust that they will do anything to affect the laws to ensure everyone submits to their delusions.

You can trust that their moral paradigm is entirely self-serving at the expense of anyone who does not submit to their delusions.

You can trust that if you piss them off enough, they will easily justify actions that can end your life.

You can trust that if they can establish and operate within a community of sufficient numbers, they will do whatever they can to undermine the systems they live within to transform their community into a Gilead nightmare.

You can trust that they view their toxic attitudes and destructive actions through a lens of corrupted righteousness, fueling a war under the guise of being an army in service to their delusion.

You can trust that they will identify the most easily victimized and relentlessly attack them as a recruitment strategy for their delusion as they seek to spread adherence to it like it were a communicable disease.