(March 6, 2009 at 1:15 am)halhelmboldt Wrote: Cal,is that you? Oh,I do hope not. The "Christianity is a psychsosis" is a bit of a worry.
No. This is not "Cal" (whoever that might be).
The definition of psychosis is: Any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted.
Further, the fundamental explanation of the fact that Christianity is nothing less than psychosis is the following:
The beauty behind a miracle of an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action such as religion is that it has the power to explain everything. With the acceptance of God or Satan as being the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, logic can happily and erroneously be excluded from any concern or consideration and nothing, then, is ever left to chance. The greatest excuse ever perpetuated on humanity is the accomplishment of religion to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in dilusion, however satisying and reassuring. (partially quoted from Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan).
To digress that "Christianity is a psychosis" (being a bit of a worry) certainly goes back to my furthered statement that religion {psychosis}is an irresistible motive to believe anything otherwise. There is plenty of evidence to certify beyond any doubt that Christianity and the ongoing belief in a supernatural deity within Christianity is specifically proportionate with psychosis. Once realized and accepted as fact based on demonstrated and substantiated evidence, there is no further need to feel troubled or worried that a fact is simply a fact. Instead, it is awareness, itself, which is the first step in recovering from any mental illness. Christianity is incisively, psycosis.
You did not offer anything especially useful to discuss except for an insinuated exacerbation that I might be someone you know, which I am not.
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Your definition of psychosis is I think simplistic and misleading. That Christians are out of touch with reality is an opinion,not a fact. A psychosis is is often controllable ,but not normally curable.
There is no evidence of which I'm aware to show a belief in Christianity per se [or any other major religion] is a psychosis within the accepted meaning, or even a minor psychiatric disorder..
However, I concede the possibility of error will be happy to re examine my position if you can point me at some text books and some peer reviewed articles to support your theory.
Perhaps have glance at the attached link. It may help you to be begin to gain a more complete understanding of the term, which you seem to have gleaned from a very old dictionary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis#Classification
