(August 11, 2017 at 1:09 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: There are a lot of religious people in the military. It's actually a very Christian community here, at least within the officers' ranks... I don't know if enlisted is any different. Most are some form of protestant, but there are Mormons and Catholics as well. These men and women are not psychotic or mentally ill. You actually have to be very mentally fit to be in the military, especially for the more prestigious positions.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is to answer your question, no, being religious is not a form of mental illness in any way. Medically or otherwise.
It's a matter of degrees, sure, but at a minimum, every last one is delusional. That may not qualify as a mental illness or full-blown psychosis but adhering to it displays numerous symptoms of various disorders. Maybe it belongs to its own specialized niche of mental defects since no one ever comes to religious conclusions on their own. A condition that has to be inflicted rather than something that develops on its own, but still a condition.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
