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The headline on the News Nerd was almost too good to be true:
“American Psychological Association to Classify Belief in God As a Mental Illness.”
A study, the story beneath it read, had led the APA to conclude that “a strong and passionate belief in a deity or higher power, to the point where it impairs one’s ability to make conscientious decisions about common sense matters, will now be classified as a mental illness.”
“Religious belief and the angry God phenomenon has caused chaos, destruction, death, and wars for centuries. The time for evolving into a modern society and classifying these archaic beliefs as a mental disorder has been long overdue.”
The story, like the others the site publishes, was “for entertainment purposes only,” and “purely satirical.” In other words, a spoof. The hour was not nigh; psychologists were not yet ready to diagnose firm belief in God as what it is: an unhealthy delusion. Men in white jumpsuits won’t be forcing the faithful into straightjackets any time soon.
Yet the satire in the News Nerd’s piece derives its efficacy from an obvious truth: belief in a deity motivates people to behave in all sorts of ways — some childish and pathetic, others harmful, a few outright criminal — most of which, to the nonbeliever at least, mimic symptoms of an all-encompassing mental illness, if of widely varying severity.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/26/the_...from_his_mind/
Bigots (You, the satirical website, and salon)
SJWSalon
Liberalism is the real mental illness.
It's A Trap!
take.
mental illness is the real mental illness.
calling anyone who disagrees with you crazy is basically ad hominem and discloses an aversion to reasoned, persuasive discussion. reducing everything to political ideology is pathetically simplistic -- in this respect the poster here you most resemble is boutons.
i wonder when they will be classifying radical leftism and extreme political correctness as mental conditions?
there's no need. that's what we have FOX, Breitbart and Drudge for.
there no shortage of cheap psychoanalyzing among non-specialists. I kinda wish there were.
It's A Trap!
you get to point and laugh at white power minions like m>s and baby libertarians like CN, who took it seriously, while thinking something very similar yourself.
do you think religion is a mental disease, boutons?
yes, when religion becomes an all-excluding obsession, closing minds to science, rationality, common sense, when it justifies murder, lying, cheating while refusing to "render unto Caesar", it's is definitely a mental disorder.
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