(July 12, 2016 at 5:17 am)purplepurpose Wrote:(July 12, 2016 at 5:00 am)pocaracas Wrote: Oh..... when you give it a name, it all suddenly makes sense!!Its the same as proclaiming that faith is an mental illness. Very bold claim.
Indeed...
I'd say it's a mental state.
To call it an illness implies that it's a state that's detrimental to the individual... and, while it is detrimental to a form of intellectual honesty, many people can maintain the faith state and undergo no form of intellectual dishonesty (how's that for multiple negatives?).
Perhaps, because the dishonesty is not perceived as such...?
