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APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness

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APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
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APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 5:10 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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September 12, 2015 at 5:16 am (This post was last modified: September 12, 2015 at 5:16 am by MTL.)
(September 12, 2015 at 5:10 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: American Psychological Association Classifies Belief in “God” As Mental Illness

With the new classification, the APA will lobby to introduce legislation which would allow doctors the right to force life-saving treatment on those who refuse it for spiritual reasons on the grounds that they are mentally incapable of making decisions about their health.

Won't that be directly unconstitutional?
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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 8:44 am
I'm more worried about the "indoctrinated" affecting other people's health! Don't really care about their own...
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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 10:38 am
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.

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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 10:47 am
Yeah, religion can make you pretty crazy. The more fundie people are, the more likely they're going to be to kill people over this stuff.
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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 11:16 am
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 12:07 pm

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: APA Classifies Belief in God As Mental Illness
September 12, 2015 at 12:09 pm
That's the funniest part. The fact that you can say something like this, and many people will find this believable.
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September 12, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Yep.  Batshit crazy, every last one of them!
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September 12, 2015 at 1:41 pm
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