RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
May 10, 2015 at 3:58 pm
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Exactly. I am a suicidal depressive, but nobody would guess purely from looking at me or even interacting with me. It's an invisible illness.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
LOL, when I went through my rough spot my issues made me -more- proficient at my job, and much more socially acceptable to my peers. Extenuating circumstances...of course, but I thought I'd toss it out there for a bit of levity.
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 RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
May 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2015 at 7:57 pm by AFTT47.)
I'm going to butt in here with the practical reason why you shouldn't call religious belief a mental illness: The majority of people (at least in the USA) have religious beliefs. They have more voting power than we do. If you call them insane, you will just piss them off. That's important because if we want to be accepted, if we want atheists to be viable candidates for public office, we can't be making blanket statements like this - even if it's true.
How far would blacks have gotten in the civil rights movement if they dissed all non-blacks? How far would the homosexuals have gotten if they dissed all straights?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein  (May 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I'm going to butt in here with the practical reason why you shouldn't call religious belief a mental illness: The majority of people (at least in the USA) have religious beliefs. They have more voting power than we do. If you call them insane, you will just piss them off. That's important because if we want to be accepted, if we want atheists to be viable candidates for public office, we can't be making blanket statements like this - even if it's true. I would like to see the demographics of religion in the US and other countries. I think that secularism is on the rise everywhere. RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
May 10, 2015 at 9:53 pm
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-or reporting to that effect is on the rise.
You'll find some (extremely cynical) secular philosophy in hinduism (6th century...BC). I doubt that the "philosophers" were the only people thinking that it was a bad idea for government and religion to be wrapped around each other like a twizzler - even back then.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
 RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
May 10, 2015 at 9:59 pm
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I hope people knowing what secularism means is on the rise too!
(May 10, 2015 at 9:48 pm)mbk734 Wrote:(May 10, 2015 at 7:52 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I'm going to butt in here with the practical reason why you shouldn't call religious belief a mental illness: The majority of people (at least in the USA) have religious beliefs. They have more voting power than we do. If you call them insane, you will just piss them off. That's important because if we want to be accepted, if we want atheists to be viable candidates for public office, we can't be making blanket statements like this - even if it's true. It is indeed. Polls in the US indicate a slow but sure increase in secularism and a corresponding drop in Christianity. That's good news. Christians still rule in this country, though and we need to act accordingly. Failure to do so would be denying reality - the same thing we accuse Christians of doing.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein 
I am not calling them insane.
But the reality is that they are mentally unstable to a particular degree, especially since they are believing in something with no evidence to substantiate it. It takes a particular degree of absence from reality to cling to a belief system that has a clear association with fiction.
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
 RE: Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness
May 11, 2015 at 2:22 am
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(May 10, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Exactly. I am a suicidal depressive, but nobody would guess purely from looking at me or even interacting with me. It's an invisible illness. Stimbo, ISOL rang, they want you to call them back ...urgently...something about good men are hard to find.
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