"Kent’s critics have long accused him of using anti-cultism as a tool to promote a broader hostility toward religion, and [his book Psychobiographies and Godly Visions: Disordered Minds and the Origins of Religiosity] reads like a spectacular confirmation. All religious leaders are painted with the same brush: deluded, dangerous, and diagnostically compromised. This worldview is so totalizing that it leaves no room for metaphor, [or for] mystery, or [for] the possibility that [the] spiritual experience might be more than just neurological noise."
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Massimo Introvigne, "Stephen Kent Unmasks Himself: From Anti-Cult Scholar to Anti-Religion Crusader", Bitter Winter (August 15, 2025)
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