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Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 1:15 pm
I know too many people that got one of those mental diseases *because* of religion. I mean, religion is fine and everything up to a certain extent if you can find peace in it. BUT some people go overboard...goes hardcore Jesus mode.. Hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord praise the lord.
This is where it gets dangerous. The prayer they started saying as a routine becomes something they *have* to do (or someone close to them will die). It becomes a matter of life or death. People start getting anxious. People start getting scared. So they go see a pastor and the shit cunt pastor(no offense you piece of you slimy shit faced cunt fuck) tells them the hospital is the devil. So they don't go to a doctor because again it's a matter of life or death..they absolutely *have* to resist the temptation to see a specialist and get meds. It's the devil. The most they resist and the more they cling on to their Jesus's dick the more they'll be rewarded in the afterlife.
FUCK YOU religion.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 1:38 pm
Idk but I know that like many who are mentally healthy and religious I felt extreme guilt over very normal thoughts and physical urges. That's what led me to really feel like it was bullshit, when I realized the way I felt and the things I did were the same things everyone else did.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 4:37 pm
(August 4, 2017 at 1:15 pm)pool the matey Wrote: I know too many people that got one of those mental diseases *because* of religion. I mean, religion is fine and everything up to a certain extent if you can find peace in it. BUT some people go overboard...goes hardcore Jesus mode.. Hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord praise the lord.
This is where it gets dangerous. The prayer they started saying as a routine becomes something they *have* to do (or someone close to them will die). It becomes a matter of life or death. People start getting anxious. People start getting scared. So they go see a pastor and the shit cunt pastor(no offense you piece of you slimy shit faced cunt fuck) tells them the hospital is the devil. So they don't go to a doctor because again it's a matter of life or death..they absolutely *have* to resist the temptation to see a specialist and get meds. It's the devil. The most they resist and the more they cling on to their Jesus's dick the more they'll be rewarded in the afterlife.
FUCK YOU religion.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 4:39 pm
Translation - GC thinks you will reject the jesus dust he wants to throw in your eyes.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2017 at 4:51 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
I dunno... there's a lot of people on this forum with mental illnesses. I'm going to say it's mainly a genetic thing and it doesn't make a difference what your beliefs are.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 6:32 pm
Actually, studies show that, for the most part, participation in religion that is positive has a positive effect on mental health or perceived mental health. In those instances where religion has a negative effect (persecution/fixated on sin) more mental disorders are identified.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/192d/21...a10c8d.pdf
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/202/1/68
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 7:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2017 at 7:47 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
Nah brewer, when I think about it I don't remember anyone getting any sorts of mental illness because they're an atheist but I know several that got mentally ill because of religion...you know? The whole hallelujah hallelujah probably gets to their heads :/
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 4, 2017 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2017 at 8:39 pm by brewer.)
(August 4, 2017 at 7:45 pm)pool the matey Wrote: Nah brewer, when I think about it I don't remember anyone getting any sorts of mental illness because they're an atheist but I know several that got mentally ill because of religion...you know? The whole hallelujah hallelujah probably gets to their heads :/
Which came first, chicken or egg?
Edit: Plus you need to differentiate between endogenous/biologic and exogenous/situational mental disorders.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
August 5, 2017 at 12:16 am
(August 4, 2017 at 6:32 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Actually, studies show that, for the most part, participation in religion that is positive has a positive effect on mental health or perceived mental health. In those instances where religion has a negative effect (persecution/fixated on sin) more mental disorders are identified.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/192d/21...a10c8d.pdf
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/202/1/68
Makes perfect sense. The only logical conclusion to draw is, why take the risk when the rule book reads like a fucking room in an asylum where the walls are smeared with the feces of its schizophrenic occupant trying to communicate?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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