Hi friends. I've been looking a lot lately at how dark tetrad people think. Dark tetrads are arrogant, entitled, remorseless, exploitative and cruel. I've used the term Christian dark tetrads to describe my four parents. And you may be asking can a Christian also be narcissistic and "dark?" Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Christianity? They surely can and well spotted, it most definitely does. I would add that Christian narcissists are quite common. Religious "holiness" is the perfect guise for wickedness and a great method for gaslighting, deceit and lies that characterize dark personalities. The belief system fits right in with their evil minded agenda. How is this?
Dark tetrads love free shit. But they also like withholding from people. They love stuff and they use people. Healthy folks do it the other way around. Dark Tetrads love owning so much that they will lie, steal and cheat. Because their vain, arrogance tells them they are entitled to whatever others have that they want. Without earning it, with no strings attached and AND they believe they have the prerogative to withhold from others, even that which rightfully belongs to the other person. It's this constant paradox that they exploit to maximum personal benefit. And it's how Christian beliefs tally nicely with their exalted status.
Forgiveness, eternity, salvation are all freely given by God to mankind. Every. Single. One. Of. Us. But dark tetrads pervert God's gift in two ways. First, they twist it into something they have merited or "won." "Winning" is essential to dark tetrads, preferably at someone else's expense. They prefer to con, scam and score off others rather than winning on their own merits. Dark tetrads aren't about giving and sharing, they are about stealing, cheating and hoarding.
There are some self-proclaimed Christians that even talk about winning their salvation and winning others for Christ. (Spent far too much of my valuable time with these people, regrettably). They use it synonymously with earning, even suffering and sacrificing. But they didn't win or earn anything. Jesus did. They just accepted the gift He gives. As we all do. But they twist salvation into being due to great and noble deeds that THEY have done. And they expect salvation as their due, not as a gift of God. But you hear precious little from them about how they actually follow the Christ they are named for because...
Dark tetrads expect without condition. They take what they want without paying for it. And there is a cost to salvation and that is humility and love of others. Neither of which appeal to dark tetrads. In order to get salvation we must try to live as best we can like God wants us to. We don't get the free stuff and still get to keep the old selfish ways of doing things. BUT this is exactly what the dark tetrad demands: the perks without the work. But, BUT they also contrarily and contradictorily lay heavy burdens on others that they do not bear themselves. Because...
It's all about THEM, not God. They do things for show, for effect, for attention. They pervert everything, including even the tenets of their faith for their own ends. They love the sound of their own voices (Jesus warned of Pharisees who do this). They preach at other people what to do, how to act, what God wants. They preach in such a way that makes it sound like they have special intel from God into our hearts and minds. And it's always dirt they have on us, supposedly. They gaslight you into believing God has revealed (they adore that bombastic word) to them all this wickedness in you.
He hasn't. They just do this to turn the spotlight away from their wretched behavior. And wow do they exploit this. They bind you up to all manner of guilt and shame and then lie and say they have none. Because (wait for it) they have confessed it to God and God has "forgiven them." And you, because you believe a genuine version of Christianity believe them. You don't question why it is that they have never confessed or even admitted to any human person anything they've done. What they have done is lied, backpeddled, blame shifted and distorted. They have never taken responsibility for their actions. And they have laid their crimes at your door. And if you are a person with an already overactive conscience (raises hand here) you take all their shame and blame on yourself.
But if you would just for once, stop and listen to what they are saying, you will see the long con in their words. Remember I said they speak as if they have secret insider knowledge into God, scripture and even your heart? They don't. You can read the Bible for yourself. You are perfectly capable of understanding and coming to God on your own. But they don't want you to know that. They need you to go through them. They con you into thinking you need their personal Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. They do this to protect the scam they've set up. They are skimming off the profits and presenting a very false doctrine. Christianity is all an elaborate charade for them.
Because you will notice, if you stop and look, that they don't follow the commands they lay on you. They don't bear witness. They get even that wrong. They'll brag about "witnessing" but they do this in word only, not deed. They don't show, they tell. They do not model humility, repentance, love, kindness, gentleness, meekness, self-control, temperance, modesty. The fruits of the spirit. In their vain minds, they are above such rules. They are "hearers and preachers of the word, not doers." They bind other people up to burdens they do not carry themselves. Dark tetrads also preach false doctrine and tell people they have to do things God never said they had to. And they forbid things God never has.
They proclaim to preach salvation but they don't. Because they don't really want other people to come to actually know God. Because then they wouldn't have the edge. They wouldn't have something to hold over others. They don't anyway, they just think they do because they are selfish and arrogant. Remember I said they don't share, they hoard? Dark tetrads delight in shaming others. They live to tell people off, bury them in guilt and shame, watch them drown and sell popcorn. While they take God's gift without following him. They are the ones steeped in shame. But they need you to buy into their Ponzi scheme to protect the selfish, self-serving "reality" they have created.
I'm absolutely exhausted now, but later I'll blog about what you can do to avoid being sucked in.
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