(June 3, 2016 at 12:05 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I think there's a pretty thin line between mental illness and religion.
It's basically the difference between "God speaks to me (In some vague indescribable way)"
And "God speaks to me (really, he speaks to me)"
Or "God guides me (in some vague way)" and "God guides me (God really is in control of me sometimes)"
I think the difference is simply a matter of numbers.
An intelligent person with a correctly functioning brain can believe religious dogma because that's how humans are wired. They're just believing what so many other people around them believe. They're sane.
But the things they believe are utterly insane. They're not mentally ill, but they are affected by a social illness. Which is what religion is. A social illness.
A Gemma is forever.
