(January 29, 2016 at 1:28 pm)athrock Wrote: As you can see from the quote from Harris' book, he does believe that mental illness causes people to be attracted to religion.
And Harris was clearly referring to God as a psychopath in the debate.
Consequently, I don't think that WLC misrepresented Harris' position AT ALL.
It happened to me; I went through a period of depression and suicidal thoughts and I "got religion". It took me years before coming back to my senses. My "conversion" occurred over the period of a few minutes. I sunk into a state of utter despair, kind of almost a manic state and I was "born again". My detox, however, took over two years.