(April 30, 2018 at 9:34 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(April 30, 2018 at 9:30 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: But believing women are sexual objects can lead to treating women like they are sexual objects. A little different from believing in the spiritual realm.
And believing in demons can lead to torturing and killing ill people - often children - under the misapprehension, that they are possessed by evil. Explain the difference.
Believing demons exist, and believing mentally ill people are possessed by demons, are 2 different things.
The correct comparison would be: people who think the mentally ill are demons, and people who think women are objects.
...NOT people who think demons exist, and people who think women are objects.
If someone believes mentally ill folks are demons, you would be correct to say it can lead that person to treating mentally ill people like demons. Just as believing women are sex objects can lead to treating them as such.
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