I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.