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Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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.

/rant
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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 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.

/rant

I have a good answer for this post, but you'll never hear it and probably would have liked most of it. But your attitude stinks and doesn't deserve a response.

GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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
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.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly." 

-walsh
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
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 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.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
(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.

/rant

As usual when it comes to doctors the Bible has it several ways.  In a lot of passages it gives examples where people were told to use magic spells and black magic, such as in treating leprosy and in inducing abortions.

In some stories doctors were ineffective in treating assorted illnesses and diseases.  The people who relied on doctors in those stories were regarded as idiots instead of trusting in Yahweh to cure them.

In one story people could get cured if they were the first one in the pool at Bethesda when the angel stirred up its waters.  It's out of service now.

Yeshua and others were supposedly able to cure people simply by touching them and/or by praying over them.  Great for driving out demons.  Yeshua used his magical spit and mud to cure blindness. One woman was cured when she touched Yeshua's robe and drained some of his power.

Although Yeshua could cure people he also told them to go to the doctors.

The current biblical health care program consists of the sick person calling the church elders and having them pray over him while anointing him with magical oil.

So whichever method you use it's biblical. All bases are covered.  You're still going to die.
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RE: Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases
(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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