CHRISTIANITY AS A MENTAL DISORDER
By New10.
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Take a young man who becomes a Priest or a young woman who becomes a Nun.
What is the result of their choice? The obvious is denying themselves sexual
gratification as self-punishment for who knows what? Giving up a secular
life for the life of a Priest and Nun means, they are going to spend much of
their time obsessing over a mythical man who allegedly died 2,000 years ago.
Priests and Nuns engage in the mental disorder called the repetition
compulsion. Were they spending hours repeating the rosary that puts them in
a hypnotic trance. It now known that many men become Priests to have access
to children.
I make this claim as to why intelligent and educated people are the
believers in the supernatural. One reason is conditioning, that is very
potent. However, this no reason one cannot change their belief with new
information. Many Christians stay Christian out of habit and expediency.
The talk of the supernatural for those who are not habituated
recognize the pathology, and it would be declared pathological if only one
person thought as they do.
Many people steer away from a scientific study of religion since it is a
sensitive issue. However, my own view is that religion, defined the broadest
manner possible, and holds the key to a much deeper understanding of human
behavior, especially in the area of abnormal behavior. This is because of
the very fine line separating religion from many classes of psychopathology,
with that line being culture itself. That is, without culture sanction, most
or all of our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of
mental disturbance. Religion is abnormal in the literal sense of the word.
By this I mean, that, in the course of adopting religion, one is required to
construe (or misconstrue) the world in terms or principles that contradict
or supersedes naturalistic modes of understanding.
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