RE: Delusions make the human mind that more amazing
August 18, 2014 at 1:24 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2014 at 1:31 am by Simon Moon.)
Oh please....
Not only can a person's delusional beliefs make them dangerous, they set progress back decades.
People's delusional beliefs don't exist in a vacuum, they have real world negative consequences. Every delusional belief has the possibility of causing harm.
And just how do you plan on policing when a delusional belief is harmless, and when it becomes dangerous? Who gets to make that decision?
Just google a phrase something similar to "child dies because parents pray to get better". There have been multiple cases of this. One couple murdered both of their children by not getting them medical help for easily treatable conditions. I'm sure there are plenty of faith healing Christians that believe these parents made the right decision.
When predominantly delusional thinking ruled the world, we called it the 'Dark Ages'.
This may help you visualize the problem:
![[Image: darkages.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=d3ct8f39dj9jhs.cloudfront.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F04%2Fdarkages.gif)
Delusional beliefs: start wars, fly planes into buildings, gets pseudoscience taught in school science courses, persecutes minorities, cause honor killings, blows people up in public places, causes female genital mutilation, suppresses advances in medical science... need I go on?
Do you even think about what you post anymore?
Not only can a person's delusional beliefs make them dangerous, they set progress back decades.
People's delusional beliefs don't exist in a vacuum, they have real world negative consequences. Every delusional belief has the possibility of causing harm.
And just how do you plan on policing when a delusional belief is harmless, and when it becomes dangerous? Who gets to make that decision?
Just google a phrase something similar to "child dies because parents pray to get better". There have been multiple cases of this. One couple murdered both of their children by not getting them medical help for easily treatable conditions. I'm sure there are plenty of faith healing Christians that believe these parents made the right decision.
When predominantly delusional thinking ruled the world, we called it the 'Dark Ages'.
This may help you visualize the problem:
Delusional beliefs: start wars, fly planes into buildings, gets pseudoscience taught in school science courses, persecutes minorities, cause honor killings, blows people up in public places, causes female genital mutilation, suppresses advances in medical science... need I go on?
Do you even think about what you post anymore?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
