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Psychology is one of those subjects that everybody likes to think they know something about. We love to go around diagnosing our friends and co-workers, both to make sense of the world and to make ourselves feel like we're smarter than they are. How this equates to getting the ball first in a game of footy has me buggered?
But like any science that makes its way into the wide world of sports, a lot of the "common sense" statements we hear every day are so wrong that they border on raving idiocy. In this case absolute absurdity.
You will find almost universal agreement that anyone who participates in a cult (or, organized religion of any kind) is simply either weak minded, mentslly challenged or some kind of brain drained combination of the two. We tend to associate cults with fanaticism, assuming that they are all made up of people that wear bed sheets and live in the backwoods somewhere? As social animals we are hard-wired to want to belong to a group. It's a need as basic and real as hunger or sex. When we get cut off from our group, lose a job, divorce, break up with our girlfriend or even lose a Grand Final... we go a little crazy. Cults are very, very good at finding people in that exact moment of weakness, and saying exactly the right things. Whoever thought this camp neccessary after the Crows loss in 2017 had a momnet of madness that still reverberates to this day.
Mate we literally have an experienced doctor of medicine in our forum who happens to be a committed Christian.
I would say your generalisation about weak mindedness or being mentally challenged is a very very broad statement and one that is not necessarily accurate. Some of your other stuff I agree with wholeheartedly