I wasn't being entirely serious when I suggested a medication for religion. Even if such a thing were possible, it wouldn't necessarily be desirable. Our society seems dedicated to normalizing dissenting worldviews and lifestyles out of existence- imo this is a bad thing.
However, I don't think that the parallel is so much between religion and homosexuality as between religion and schizophrenia. Religious experience is at least very similar to schizophrenic experience, and possibly even identical. That doesn't mean that all religious people are schizophrenic, but it does imply that the tools that we use to study schizophrenia and other psychopathologies could be fruitfully applied to the study of religious experience.
However, I don't think that the parallel is so much between religion and homosexuality as between religion and schizophrenia. Religious experience is at least very similar to schizophrenic experience, and possibly even identical. That doesn't mean that all religious people are schizophrenic, but it does imply that the tools that we use to study schizophrenia and other psychopathologies could be fruitfully applied to the study of religious experience.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
