Narcissist: Private God, Missionary Religion, Global Faith
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2020-09-21

As an abused and traumatized child, the narcissist creates a False Self: a godhead to shield and protect him. This divinity is everything the child is not: omnipotent, omniscient, perfect, and brilliant. But like erstwhile idols, it requires human sacrifice and the child surrenders its True Self at the altar of this newfangled Moloch. As an adult, he tries to convert everyone around him to the New Faith by coercing and cajoling them to admire his False Self. Every narcissist is, therefore, a one man missionary cult.

As a growing number of people become increasingly more narcissistic, we are witnessing the emergence of a new religion with every narcissist as both a god and a worshipper, a node in a network. It is the first polytheistic distributed networked major faith, with consequences as momentous as any other major creed has had. 

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