New to the forum. Sorry for the long lead in. Greetings
I tend to have a wide variety of friends and I don't exclude good people from my life because they choose to be involved in a religion. I know people from a wide variety of faiths and I have members of my family who are both atheists and a few who are practitioners of a faith. Most of my friends are not religious, but over the years I have become connected, maybe partially because of where I live, with loads of beautiful new agey people. Compared to most spiritualized people the new age types I find to be truly loving and harmless.
Although, being a non believer who was brought up in pretty progressive Catholic circumstances and also raised with friends of many faiths, (but with an atheist father), I get really nervous and quite guarded and uncomfortable around people who constantly gush about their personal gods, or the divinity, or just the universe in general. It makes me feel like I'm hanging with someone who is delusional and not very intelligent and it's hard not to debate a bit with them. Most of my believer friends realize that it's not a good idea to talk about religion and meta-magical stuff with me, and we can have good friendships regardless. But there are those who can't help it and those I end up offending with my honesty.
There's this whole other spiritualism.inc thing that has the spiritually oppressed flocking to join. It's like a this mash up of hippie Beatles in India meets Depak Chopra on a bus with a shaman, Jesus, Buddha, and every form of native spiritualism wrapped together. It's quickly turning into another massive religious movement that also, ironically, denies science, and blames victims for their own misfortune. That whole Law of Attraction, power of positive thinking, crystal magic bullshit.
Anyway, my question is this. I'm trying to find the correct word to describe people who constantly act as if they are in a conversation and relationship with the divine. I have met folks who all they talk about is numerology, astrology, feng shui, native spiritualism, ancient mystical arts, crystals, shamanism, telepathic mind control, law of attraction, (you get the idea) all the time. They'll thank the Divine One because their tea is hot and their ice cream is cold. It's that obsessive. I don't think the right word is "dogmatic."
What words describe this type of behavior?
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A friend once described a believer as having "an unhealthy preoccupation with Jesus".
Metaphysically deluded.
people who constantly act as if they are in a conversation and relationship with the divine are nutbags
God-addled
I actually think that are several mental illnesses that have affected large portions of the population but I don't think that there is a diagnosis for people that believe in a god. Possibly because the medical world, the psychological community is afraid to actually to make such a generalized diagnosis.
Mass hysteria comes to mind as it was described of many people that fell under the spell of NAZISM and fascism. Of course, that was made after the fact and gave cover to millions of people that were complicit in mass crimes against humanity. So it was widely accepted and politically prudent.
We are exposed to what we call radicalized people whether they be islamic or right-wing christian or some other extreme version of mainstream religions. I actually think that extremism falls into the category that equates road rage.