(November 21, 2009 at 11:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: "quotemining" ...Exqueeze me!?
The Christian bible concerns itself with our spiritual nature. The point in believing in God is to achieve a full life. Casting out demons is expelling that inside us that prevents us from achieving a full life.
I guess you're wanting to discuss this with someone with firm views on the subject, which I am certainly not. I'm interested in working it out.
And have you any statistics what-so-ever that back up the idea is good for our "spiritual" health? The studies i have seen suggested otherwise, such as finding strong correlation between those who partake in a religion and those with developed mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, delusion and paranoia.
Religion has also been found to have a strong negative correlation with divorce rates, education, healthcare, anger, violence, alcoholism and teen pregnancy.
Here is a very thorough analysis; you'll need to sign up to read it all:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1387984
Does this really sound like good "spiritual" health???
It's clear to see, Mr. Frodo, that Religion works for the mental and physical health of a person about as well as Head On does for migraines, the placebo fools the ignorant into believing while at the same time stealing the reality of the situation right out from under their eyes.
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