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What I was thinking while reading the article is, can belief in god be considered a mental illness in itself ? Could having a firm belief that there are angels around you, that god hears you and that you can hear god, be considered a mental illness ? Does having imaginary friends or enemies constitute a mental illness ? If so, is mankind suffering from a massive mental illness for a very long time now, and did it give mankind some kind of evolutionary advantage ?
Research has shown that the 'indiscriminate anti-religious' (typically atheists etc) are MOST prejudiced, hostile, angry, prone to violence etc.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: gosseyn
"Could the belief in God considered a mental illness".
FYI: You left out the word "be" in your title, and god should be God. You have 2 hours to make adjustments, should you choose to do so.
originally posted by: shawmanfromny
a reply to: gosseyn
You can't describe "faith" to people like you, so I don't even bother. You have just as much right not believing in a God, as I do believing in one.
Faith in a God has nothing to do with a malignancy or mental illness and I'm offended by your assertion that it is.
Personally, the belief in God and prayer has helped me cope with my depression and the guilt I feel for wronging many people in my life. If that makes me "mentally ill" in your book, then so be it.
originally posted by: JoseGarcia
a reply to: Lysergic
One tends toward life, liberty, overcoming, honorable values.
The other tends toward anxiety, death, ugliness, manipulation, control freakism etc.