(January 22, 2012 at 9:27 pm)Phil Wrote: ChildISH. Spellcheck makes dumb substitutions sometimes but I would expect someone intelligent enough to claim theists have mental disorders to have understood that.
Tell me, what was the medication and treatment that corrected the mental disorder of Dan Barker? John Loftus? That is just to name two specifically. What cured the myriads of atheists that used to be theists? It is no better than a theist that claims atheists are mental to claim they are. Actually it is kind of pompous and arrogant.
Example:
"If I don't believe in god, then I'll punished by god!" -Christian.
Now, I'll state the one of symptoms of schizophrenia:
Quote:Symptoms of SchizophreniaSource: http://www.world-schizophrenia.org/disor...renia.html
Symptoms vary greatly. Common symptoms of schizophrenia are:
Delusions: False, but strongly held beliefs, which feel entirely real to the sufferer. They can cause the individual to have a greatly exaggerated belief in his or her own importance, power, knowledge, abilities, or identity. Some people have delusions of persecution (paranoia)-for example, the false belief that they are being attacked, harassed, cheated, spied on or conspired against by others. Other people with schizophrenia believe that occurrences in the outside world are referring to them (ideas of reference). Examples are believing that other people are doing things because of you or that the TV or radio are referring specifically to you, often in negative ways.
We could debate how schizophrenia disorder may be or may not related to the one unable to distinguish the fiction from reality. According to the source, we could see the obvious similarities between of schizophrenia disorder and theists' mentality of their religious beliefs.
Is it arrogant and pompous to state the obvious disorder of theist' mentality? Maybe, but it's obvious truth.
