On 3 Mar 2005 08:22:12 -0800, "Graham"
<graham_the_cracker@hotmail.com> said in alt.atheism:

Hilarious. Jews are the kings of the practice infecting young

considering how their propaganda relentlessly flows from idiot

and from the public government schools that they (and other

have infiltrated, which is sending the late great U.S. to hell in
a handbasket. (Of course, many parents are pulling their kids out
of those gov't propaganda centers called public school.)

So even though Christians are the vast majority of this Christian
nation, they can do nothing to combat a tiny minority that's

the country.

No Susan, the previous poster was demonstrating just what a vile,
pernicious influence atheists and Jews like Maher, Stern and Springer
are having upon a once Christian society. Like any other company the
quality of the product (or lack thereof) and standard of business
practices are a direct reflection of the philosophy of the executives
who manage the business.

Bill Maher's recent accusation that religious believers suffer from a
"neurological disorder" that stops them from thinking is hardly just the
ranting of another Hollywood moonbat. As he somewhat famously observed to
Joe Scarborough:

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe
that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it
justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based
initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it
logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a
small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you
really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into
your head."

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?


Bill Maher's recent accusation that religious believers suffer from a
"neurological disorder" that stops them from thinking is hardly just
the ranting of another Hollywood moonbat. As he somewhat famously
observed to Joe Scarborough:

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do
believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I
think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was
a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your
head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine
at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid
for what adults put into your head."

Somewhat more inflammatory (and less tedious), perhaps, than Richard
Dawkins when he observed that "The meme for blind faith secures its
own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging
rational inquiry." And somewhat on par with Ted Turner's contention
that Christianity was for "losers" and Jesse Ventura's belief that
faith is a crutch for "weak-minded people." Regardless, they all
reflect the same basic contention: that religion is something
irrational, embraced by only those with a strange mental condition.

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?


Bill Maher's recent accusation that religious believers suffer from a
"neurological disorder" that stops them from thinking is hardly just
the ranting of another Hollywood moonbat. As he somewhat famously
observed to Joe Scarborough:

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do
believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I
think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was
a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological

If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into

head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine
at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid
for what adults put into your head."

Somewhat more inflammatory (and less tedious), perhaps, than Richard
Dawkins when he observed that "The meme for blind faith secures its
own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging
rational inquiry." And somewhat on par with Ted Turner's contention
that Christianity was for "losers" and Jesse Ventura's belief that
faith is a crutch for "weak-minded people." Regardless, they all
reflect the same basic contention: that religion is something
irrational, embraced by only those with a strange mental condition.

All of which makes me wonder if we're asking the right question.
Perhaps we should be asking if atheism is symptomatic of mental
illness. Perhaps atheists are, in a word, insane.

I mean, think about it. Here we have a faith &#8211; a belief system,
if you will &#8211; that presumes not merely the non-existence of a
creative deity but that what we commonly call the "mind" is nothing
more than neurological impulses in physical tissue. Yet at the same
time, this very organ &#8211; the same instrument that generates the
impulses &#8211; is supposed to be able to independently verify those
signals. They adopt a belief system which effectively prevents them
from validly separating reality from a drug dream, and then claim

they can. This certainly suggests a significant cognitive dissonance
worthy of concern.

Further, neurological research indicates that a particular part of

brain is connected to religious experiences. Perhaps atheists are the
product of a genetic deficiency or disorder &#8211; and if so, one

only wonder what else is wrong with them. After all, most atheists
seem to suffer from delusions of grandeur, convinced that they hold
the keys to humanity's march toward utopia. They are also quite happy
to embrace programs to "improve" humanity to suit their own purposes
&#8211; hardly a coincidence, one would have to suggest, that the

repressive regimes of recent days have all been formulated along
atheistic, humanist principles. One can only hope that the possible
link between atheism and mental illness is examined honestly before
countless others suffer needlessly.

Author's Note: In the interests of clarity, since body language

makes up some 70% of communication) is effectively absent from our
"coffeehouse conversation in text," let me say this is intended
sarcastically. Maher may be "enlightened," which I doubt, but he's
also a little boy calling names in the school yard. And anybody can
play at that game. Or we can recognize a fundamental philosophical
divide and be big enough to admit that it is more what perspective

has on the universe around us than a form of "mental illness" that is
at issue.



http://walloworld.com/index.php?p=327

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?


Bill Maher's recent accusation that religious believers suffer from a
"neurological disorder" that stops them from thinking is hardly just
the ranting of another Hollywood moonbat. As he somewhat famously
observed to Joe Scarborough:

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do
believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I
think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was
a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological

If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into

head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine
at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid
for what adults put into your head."

Somewhat more inflammatory (and less tedious), perhaps, than Richard
Dawkins when he observed that "The meme for blind faith secures its
own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging
rational inquiry." And somewhat on par with Ted Turner's contention
that Christianity was for "losers" and Jesse Ventura's belief that
faith is a crutch for "weak-minded people." Regardless, they all
reflect the same basic contention: that religion is something
irrational, embraced by only those with a strange mental condition.

All of which makes me wonder if we're asking the right question.
Perhaps we should be asking if atheism is symptomatic of mental
illness. Perhaps atheists are, in a word, insane.

I mean, think about it. Here we have a faith &#8211; a belief system,
if you will &#8211; that presumes not merely the non-existence of a
creative deity but that what we commonly call the "mind" is nothing
more than neurological impulses in physical tissue.

Yet at the same
time, this very organ &#8211; the same instrument that generates the
impulses &#8211; is supposed to be able to independently verify those
signals.

They adopt a belief system which effectively prevents them
from validly separating reality from a drug dream,

and then claim that
they can. This certainly suggests a significant cognitive dissonance
worthy of concern.

Further, neurological research indicates that a particular part of

brain is connected to religious experiences. Perhaps atheists are the
product of a genetic deficiency or disorder &#8211; and if so, one

only wonder what else is wrong with them.

After all, most atheists
seem to suffer from delusions of grandeur, convinced that they hold
the keys to humanity's march toward utopia.

They are also quite happy
to embrace programs to "improve" humanity to suit their own purposes
&#8211; hardly a coincidence, one would have to suggest, that the

repressive regimes of recent days have all been formulated along
atheistic, humanist principles.

One can only hope that the possible
link between atheism and mental illness is examined honestly before
countless others suffer needlessly.

Author's Note: In the interests of clarity, since body language

makes up some 70% of communication) is effectively absent from our
"coffeehouse conversation in text," let me say this is intended
sarcastically. Maher may be "enlightened," which I doubt, but he's
also a little boy calling names in the school yard. And anybody can
play at that game.

Or we can recognize a fundamental philosophical
divide and be big enough to admit that it is more what perspective

has on the universe around us than a form of "mental illness" that is
at issue.

http://walloworld.com/index.php?p=327

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?

Is Atheism a Sign of Mental Illness?