RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
September 5, 2018 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2018 at 3:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 4, 2018 at 9:52 pm)chimp3 Wrote: As I mentioned, antipsychotics help with psychotic delusions. They have no effect on religious beliefs commonly held.
Because the religious aren't actually hearing, seeing, or speaking to any god. It's just a thing they say that makes them sound like schizophrenics.
Antipsychotics -do- work on the religiously inspired versions of the people they mimic in pious theater. The prevalence of those particular delusions - in the clinical sense- ranges..but it's generally high..in the us, it's estimated that half of sufferers have the experiences that rank and file religionists only dream and lie about. Oddly enough, it doesn't fill their lives with beauty, bounty, and the certain comfort of being in the lords good graces.
There's the reverse to the thread title -when is a delusional belief religious - the answer being "pretty damned often".
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