(April 30, 2023 at 3:35 am)Belacqua Wrote:(April 30, 2023 at 12:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Like the ritual that Hindus in India have where they roll a small child into a cow's dung because they believe that the goddess cow will give them a good life.
From my perspective, this is yucky and unwise. When I am Emperor of India I will try to persuade them to stop.
But the larger question remains:
If a person is raised in a society in which this is common, if his parents and grandparents did it, if all the respectable people he knows approve of it, then is he insane if he also approves of it?
From my perspective, it is shockingly stupid to keep guns in one's house -- unwise to an unbelievable degree. But a lot of Americans think it's a good idea. Are they all insane?
Given what we know about tobacco, is smoking it insane? Or just a bad idea?
There's no larger question here. Yes, that's exactly the difference, and the only difference, between these religions and insanity. The difference between whether something is nuts or sunday service, clinically, is how normal it is in their community.
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