(March 3, 2015 at 11:39 pm)psychoslice Wrote: Anyone can be psychotic if they have a mental illness, religious, atheist or whoever, sounds silly to me.
As always, P'slice, the point goes right over your head. I have no idea whether mental illness is more prevalent in religious people, atheists, or if it's mostly even. You could probably look up up some studies and find out. That's not the point though. Psychosis is a mental illness that should be treated. When a religious person has it they're more likely to attribute the voices in their heads to god and not seek medical treatment. That can have a negative effect on themselves and those around them and can prove to be very dangerous in extreme cases. Do you think god really tells religious mothers to murder their children? Or do you think religious mothers with mental illnesses attributed their illness to god? And if it's the latter do you think everyone involved would have been better off had the mothers gotten real treatment for their illness, rather than gone to church and praised <insert deity here> for choosing to speak to them? I'm looking forward to another ridiculous response.
