Forgiveness
I have some major problems with this article.
"Forgiveness should be differentiated from its close cousin, acceptance, which while important, is essentially, passive. For many, the healing power of forgiveness allows us to truly move on. It’s a topic that is relevant in your life, whether you are religious or not, guilty or not."
Acceptance is passive. But acceptance implies that you think that God is not going to change things for the better. This contradicts the Christian insistence that we must assume the best of God.
"You forgive God, if necessary."
Surely you are better off without believing in God if you have to endure the pain of trying to forgive him? And if you truly trust a perfect God and are forgiving him isn't that a contradiction? Forgiving implies that the forgiven may not be trustworthy but you are taking a chance.
"You don’t have to forgive everything or everybody — it is not appropriate."
Matthew 6:14 has Jesus saying that if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
That is pure blackmail and denies that it is okay to refuse to love everybody.
The point is that psychology is incompatible with Christianity and that can have serious repercussions.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/feeling-our-way/201608/why-i-prefer-victim-survivor
This article is so good. The word survivor is even applied to people who cannot move on after something terrible was done to them. That just puts pressure on them to pretend they are okayish or okay and to be examples of survivors to others. As an atheist, the refusal to see people as true victims is offensive to me. The doctrine that God is always there and always offers help contradicts the experience of those who feel nothing supernatural is helping them. Many feel worse after praying and trying prayer and religion. It is no help to a rape victim when she reads the violence endorsed against women in the Bible by God. Faith in God effectively denies that they are victims and tells them they are survivors and if they can't see they are survivors then they are their own worst enemy. They are accused of giving the person who hurt them power over them and of thus being at least partly to blame for the damage done.
Psychology Today on Satan
I'm not sure anybody really gets comfort from the thought that the terrible things that happen to our loved ones are down to some scheming supernatural being. If he can do such things what may he do next? And if Satan exists, we cannot assume that he does evil to children and others for some plan. He could do it randomly.
Belief in Satan should lead to hatred of him and that is not good for us. It is hatred to accuse anybody of being in league with him unless there is proof.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/more-mortal/201510/why-do-people-believe-in-supernatural-evil-forces
If people can't settle for believing that God loves them but need belief in evil supernatural beings who can get others to hurt them or get them to do evil is the sense that life has meaning which is gained through faith in God worth it? Does it show that people want to believe in a God who is both good and evil? Are they dealing with the fact that they think God is good by believing in evil beings? Is belief in Satan a substitute and perhaps a poor one for man's desire to honour a Jekyll and Hyde God? Do we have an answer for those who wonder how people can worship the bloodthirsty God of the Old Testament?