I don’t believe God is coercing people into intense bouts of schizophrenia. Maybe He/It is. That’d be one REALLY tough “Godfather” to deal with, but alas it is what Judeo-Christian societies have been thumping into heads since the 4th century.
What I believe is that other persons are uniting their consciousness with mine & are trying to untie themselves from their beliefs - predominantly former Judeo-Christians who are now alive again and in some kind of “hereafter”. If that’s not it, then it’s just my mind trying to unfold inconsistencies or inaccuracies that these beliefs cause - emotionally.
I mean, after all, at some point we’re going to evolve beyond these beliefs and look back at some of the stuff we used to think & believe in as “primitive”. Such is progressive evolution of conscience…