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Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
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Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
From a psychiatrist's perspective, religion can be considered a delusion or illness (The God Delusion). This is why many religions are anti-psychiatry (Scientology is very anti-psychiatry). Hearing voices (God, angels, or demons) is a symptom of psychosis in mental illness. Speaking in tongues? Exorcisms? Religious delusions are common among the mentally ill and as we know the "sane" too. There is a book called the Three Christs of Ypsilanti about three schizophrenic patients that thought they were Jesus. Prayer is trying to talk to "God." Anyone that talks to God needs an antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer. I should know, part of my bipolar when I am manic is religiosity and obsession over existence of God, religion, the meaning of life and death. When I am stable, I am more rational and atheist in my thinking.

http://www.bible.ca/psychiatry/psychiatr...hrenic.htm
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Scientology is mainly against psychiatry because Hubbard was pissed that the psychiatrists weren't impressed by his ideas in Dianetics.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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Hubbard was nuts.
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Mental Illness is proof there is NO god

How in the FUCK does a loving gawd allow you to hear voices that want you to kill yourself and others?

Lets get real
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I don't know about that but it seems a little over the top to conclude religion is mental illness. I know plenty of people who are theist and entirely rational. I doubt it.
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(May 8, 2015 at 7:54 pm)whateverist Wrote: I know plenty of people who are theist and entirely rational.

Theist+rational=oxymoron
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Bill+Moyers=counter-example.
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Also plenty of irrational atheists. :-)
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Yeah those who believe in god don't have an advantage. Those who don't believe in gods don't have an advantage. At the end of the day we're all individuals.

https://youtu.be/jVygqjyS4CA?t=30s
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RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
(May 8, 2015 at 8:04 pm)mbk734 Wrote:
(May 8, 2015 at 7:54 pm)whateverist Wrote: I know plenty of people who are theist and entirely rational.

Theist+rational=oxymoron

Bad stereotype. Most religious people are perfectly rational in all areas of their lives except religion. And even then, the majority of religious folk are moderate about it. Your generalization is unjustified.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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