Religions > Atheism > Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a Mental Illness?
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"Greywolf" |
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25 Jun 2005 10:40:16 PM |
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Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a Mental Illness? |
Note: I wrote this prior to the post below.
After going through some of the threads (especially the "Atheism is an
improvable belief..." thread) I am struck by how much time and energy is
wasted on semantics. (Don't get me wrong, that's all well and good, but all
anyone seems to be doing is going around in circles and getting nowhere.)
I've been thinking: Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones encountered
here simply be a form of mental illness? I'm not kidding. Think about it.
You have people who simply refuse to accept "proof-positive" when it's
presented to them. (And that's *only* if they even bother to look at,
examine, or study
such proof-positives when it is submitted. There are cases provided in
various posts down the line
where Christian fundamentalists were presented evidence that was (and is)
contrary to their belief and either did not actually examine it or lied and
said they did.
Note: We read or examined *their* stuff but when presented with
contrary evidence it was either rejected or ignored.)
They simply refuse to
accept "proof." Period. What is that? Is it some chemical imbalance in the
brain or what? I find it maddening and disheartening. Look at all the
hostility it dredges up. We atheists/agnostics have the upper hand on the
religionists, thanks, in large part to science, but so what? What is it,
biologically and psychologically speaking, that produces such out-and-out
ignorance and fanaticism. If fundamentalism *is* officially recognized as a
mental disorder, I'd like to see evidence of that. And please, not a round
of, "What is the "True" definition of Mental Illness." How about a round of
what constitutes "proof" in the mind of a fundie instead. And while we're at
it: Fundies, are you mentally ill?
Greywolf
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| User: "Ben Goren" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a MentalIllness? |
25 Jun 2005 11:19:11 PM |
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Greywolf wrote:
I've been thinking: Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones
encountered here simply be a form of mental illness? I'm not
kidding. Think about it. You have people who simply refuse to
accept "proof-positive" when it's presented to them. (And that's
*only* if they even bother to look at, examine, or study such
proof-positives when it is submitted. There are cases provided
in various posts down the line where Christian fundamentalists
were presented evidence that was (and is) contrary to their
belief and either did not actually examine it or lied and said
they did.
You need to read up on cognitive dissonance. ``Mental illness''
might not be the proper term, but the phenomenon is well
understood.
Cheers,
b&
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God can never prove that this sentence is true.
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a Mental Illness? |
26 Jun 2005 12:09:32 AM |
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On 25 Jun 2005, Greywolf dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones encountered
here simply be a form of mental illness?
Read duke and tell me he is sane.
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Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
Plonked by Jason Gastrich for all eternity...
Lovingly plonked by Roger Pearse
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"I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think
there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading
around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and
praying to a rock."
[Howard Stern]
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| User: "Phÿltêr" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a Mental Illness? |
26 Jun 2005 01:47:00 AM |
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Vic Sagerquist <address@withheld.com> astounded us with:
news:Xns9680E196DEE07vicman@216.196.97.136:
On 25 Jun 2005, Greywolf dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones encountered
here simply be a form of mental illness?
Read duke and tell me he is sane.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
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Phÿltêr
AA#1938
Denizen of Darkness #44 & AFJC Antipodean Attaché
Remove "s" to respond
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| User: "Ben Goren" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a MentalIllness? |
26 Jun 2005 01:32:49 AM |
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Vic Sagerquist wrote:
Greywolf wrote:
Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones encountered here
simply be a form of mental illness?
Read duke and tell me he is sane.
I will, as soon a I find the key on my keyboard for ``my fingers
are crossed behind my back.''
Cheers,
b&
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God can never prove that this sentence is true.
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| User: "Masked Avenger" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a MentalIllness? |
26 Jun 2005 07:35:43 AM |
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Vic Sagerquist wrote:
On 25 Jun 2005, Greywolf dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Could fundamentalist beliefs like the ones encountered
here simply be a form of mental illness?
Read duke and tell me he is sane.
can we add Dore and JW to that list ?
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Masked Avenger
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EAC Chief Technician in charge of remotely rigging Fundie 'Spell
Checkers' so they all look like hick home schooled yokels
Does Schroedinger's cat have 18 half lives ?
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| User: "leo" |
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| Title: Re: Is Fundamentalist Belief "Officially" Recognized as a Mental Illness? |
26 Jun 2005 03:54:53 AM |
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There is not any need of considering Christianity a mental illness.
People in general do not analyse or think much. Just on ordinary,
banal, matters. It is the same for the Xians. So in general, the
Christian sheep are used to walk along with the herd.
And what about the shepherds? Well, shepherds are living of the
patter, or their talkativeness. They more they patter, the less time
they let their sheep to ponder what they hear. So, for any human
sheep, anything that is repeated a thousand times becomes an unsinkable
truth.
What happens then with us, atheist? It is simple. We are not sheep
or goats but "homo cogitans" that is "thinker men". We are not beasts
of a low level of awareness, but thinkers. We are a superior sort of
human beings.
I was once arguing with a youngman of my age about religion. "I cannot
argue with you, dude." "Why not?" "Because I do not waste my time
argueing with sheeps. I only can argue with the shepherd."
The boy was stunned. Then I told him: "Do you know what are sheep
for, in regard to the shepher? They need the sheep to take off their
wool, and to milk them to make cheese and butter."
Most of the Xiands that come to this atheist forum know this truth, and
they just come here to train. And to chase off their bad thoughts. I
think the preachers are simple shepherds, and they live out of
exploiting the herd.
I would say they are a sort cinical atheists. They don't believe even
a single turd of all the ***** they are preaching.
leo
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