A messiah complex (also known as the Christ complex or savior complex) is a state of mind in which an individual holds a belief they are, or are destined to become, a savior. The messiah complex does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is Gods ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)
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