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Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
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RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
(May 11, 2015 at 6:09 pm)mbk734 Wrote: I don't think mental illness is a negative thing and I have no bias against people with mental illness (I have bipolar). It is what it is. Some people are born with mental illness just like you are born into a religious family. Believing in a God/Heaven/Hell/Angels/Demons/Witches is a delusion. Having delusions is a symptom of mental illness. I don't think that mental illness is literally a mental illness that needs treatment. They just need some atheist cognitive behavioral therapy to heal their brainwashing from growing up in a religious family/school.

If you replaced some of those words your rhetoric resembles young earth creationists very closely Wink

So you don't think a mental illness is literally a mental illness? What is it then? Is it just half-mental illness? A quarter? Are you a psychiatrist and know what a mental illness is? - Since your basis to classify religion as a mental illness is the fact it is irrational/delusional then we are all mentally ill because we all have delusions and irrational beliefs. We are not robots and rationality is not always widespread even among brilliant critical minds.

Also, can I label someone who believes in something I disagree with as mentally ill? Because that's the basic premise you are proposing.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 8, 2015 at 6:33 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Jenny A - May 8, 2015 at 11:31 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 8, 2015 at 8:04 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 8, 2015 at 10:19 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by AFTT47 - May 9, 2015 at 12:17 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Pyrrho - May 10, 2015 at 1:17 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Razzle - May 21, 2015 at 9:29 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Tonus - May 11, 2015 at 3:57 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by AFTT47 - May 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Cephus - May 11, 2015 at 2:20 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 10, 2015 at 9:48 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by AFTT47 - May 10, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Silver - May 11, 2015 at 1:44 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Cyberman - May 11, 2015 at 10:37 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Dystopia - May 11, 2015 at 11:14 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Pyrrho - May 11, 2015 at 3:53 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Pyrrho - May 11, 2015 at 5:58 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 11, 2015 at 6:09 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Dystopia - May 11, 2015 at 6:14 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 11, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by z7z - May 11, 2015 at 6:56 pm
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by robvalue - May 12, 2015 at 11:09 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by Razzle - May 20, 2015 at 3:13 am
RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness - by comet - May 23, 2015 at 8:56 pm

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