(April 30, 2018 at 9:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Believing demons exist, and believing mentally ill people are possessed by demons, are 2 different things.
Watching/making porn and believing women are sexual objects are two different things.
(April 30, 2018 at 9:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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.
What's the difference, if it leads to torture of a mentally ill person... I mean "exorcism"? You can split hairs all you want, but the truth is - innocent people get tortured, instead of getting medical help, because of your shared belief in magical beings, despite lack of any evidence for such things. And - as I said before - many mentally ill people are being told, that their delusions might be real. Yet you have no problem with any of that? Why? Oh, that's right - because you were promised everlasting life, so a little collateral damage is acceptable.
(April 30, 2018 at 9:48 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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.
And if someone believes, that demons exist and possess people, then they're more likely to interpret mental illness as such an occurrence, since the way their bible describes paranormal experiences is indistinguishable from a variety of mental conditions.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
