Is evolution 'gaslighting'?

[Wootah]

A lot of people are told the truth from an evolutionary perspective that they are insignificant atoms.


Is this a form of gaslighting?

gaslighting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief.

[Donray]

Gaslighting is what Christens use to discredit science including the fact that evolution is true and that life stated with single cells and evolved into humans and all other life. .

[2Dbunk]

A lot of people are told the truth from an evolutionary perspective that they are insignificant atoms.


Is this a form of gaslighting?

gaslighting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief.

As a fellow human being and one who has escaped the clutches of religion (in my case Christianity), I find your OP offensive. You are suggesting that non-theists like me, who wrestled for years, maybe decades, with questioning their faith, trying to find the Truth in this deity p___ing contest, have developed their opinions (weighing all the facts available to finally breakout into the clear sunshine) -- because we were susceptible to gaslighting? Please go back under your rock and give it a good think again!

It has been my life's study to grasp the reality of all things -- for is not my life at stake here? I have been shunned by many friends and acquaintances because of my present stance -- I did this because I was sucked in through gaslighting? I don't think so! If anything, you might be guilty of falling under that influence.

Had the Christian church (and The Christ) not DEMANDED my allegiance or suffer "eternal torture," I might not have questioned my faith at all just like most Christians don't really do." But I learned early on that threats are made by bullies -- and that lit my fire!

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