(July 12, 2014 at 11:04 am)TheGamingAtheist Wrote: The whole topic of my writing is how religion can be compared to mental illness and the negatives of religion.
What I am asking of you is to voice what you feel should be included in my writing. What kind of topics should I include, what sources do you hand that I could site and utilize?
Current news and events are always a example of how religion and mental illness are very much alike. Religious scriptures have already been refuted or diminished thanks to our modern age science and understanding. And naming religious atrocities in the past even when it helps people can always use the "yeah but that was back then our times are different". But when you mention actual current events with people that live among us in our times that my friend HELPS A LOT. Because people can't say "its because they were uneducated", nor "is because they were superstitious".
There are multiple issues where religious people do crazy stuff , that you can use as an example of metal illness.
- Pastor Robert Jeffress says:Jesus Wants A Border Fence.
- The National Security Agency and FBI treat moderate Muslims like terrorists.
- Bill Ayers claims native American genocide didn't happen.
- John Nienstedt, the Catholic anti-gay archbishop claims that satan is behind gay rights.
- The Kyle Kulinski Show attacks the Pill & promiscuous women because he claims that female sexuality should be repressed.
- Ben Carson says that abortion is human sacrifice.
- Rick Joyner claims that the Big Bang confirms' that God created the universe.
- William Walters, the Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Klan-affiliated group East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire, told Philadelphia that the organization is "a Christian group". Because he claims that racism is a 'Religious Belief'.
- Donald Sterling Denver radio host says: "All racists are, at the end of the day are atheists"
- Alex Jonesof The Kyle Kulinski Show says: TV Brainwashes For Satanic Killings.
- On Father's Day June 15, Ignite Church gave away two of the weapons as part of a marketing strategy to bring more young men into the fold.
- Rev. Jody Hicecandidate seeking to represent Georgia's 10th U.S. House district believes that the First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty does not apply to followers of Islam.
- "Generations Radio," Religious Right activist Kevin Swanson says
umbledore & 'Gobber The Belch' linked to Pedophilia, and Frozen promotes homosexuality, and Star Trek is an example of Zoophilia, Gay people responsible for hurricane Katrina, tattoos reinforces Polygamy, and Mark Twain was possessed by Satan.
- Janet Mefferd on Friday, Randy Thomasson of Save California warned that marriage equality laws amount to slavery and totalitarianism.
- Rick Perry Compares Gays To Alcoholics.
- Creationist Darek Isaacs said during an online broadcast posted: evolution can't be true because it condones raping.
- John Hagee says knowledge without God leads to Nazism.
- On his "Pray In Jesus Name" program Gordon Klingenschmitt defends the comment made recently by E.W. Jackson that church-state separation groups like the ACLU and the Freedom From Religion Foundation are literally representatives of "demonic power."
- A conservative activist Marjorie Holstein, who has been billed as a homeschooling expert by tea party groups, warned over the weekend that sex-ed courses were a plot to increase the number of Democratic voters by destroying marriages.
- 26 women are hoping for, all of whom co-signed a letter addressed to the Pope ask him for permission to have sex with their boyfriends, who just happen to be priests, who have taken vows of celibacy.
