(November 22, 2009 at 8:26 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(November 22, 2009 at 6:24 am)Wanderer Wrote: Frodo, by your understanding, a psychopathic murderer would be possessed by a demon, correct?
Incorrect. I wouldn't know.
(November 22, 2009 at 7:50 am)theVOID Wrote: Spirituality is not Religion, rather Religion is the spirituality concerned with one or more sky daddies. Spirituality does not even have to have connection to the supernatural or pesudoscientific blabber, though it often does, it is more the sense of ones self and their connection to the environment around them - Now, go back and find studies on Religion and mental health - you'll notice the negative correlations immediately in the statistics.
'Religion' in the sense that it gets abused is always bad yes. No argument there. Real religious experience as stated in the articles I linked is only positive and recognised as such.
You don't get to ignore the negative and focus strictly on positive experience, you need to be aware of and take into account each and every instance equally to form a meaningful conclusion and avoid being woefully ignorant on the subject. There is only correlation between religion and poor mental health, either religion causes the mental ailments (unlikely) or it says something about the type of people likely to believe a religions claims.
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