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In reply to the discussion: Worshipper rips out both eyes in Mass with his BARE HANDS [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)38. That was Abraham not Isaac.
In the 4000 years since Abraham, medicine has learned how to describe mental illness, identify its symptoms and many of its causes.
Pull a Frist and describe Abraham's illness and symptoms.
Medically, your thesis is a fail.
Now, shift gears and try some scholarship to determine what exactly that story is about.
Unless you prefer to stay put, and keep typing: Abraham heard voices; a man in a church 4000 years later heard voices; Abraham was going to kill his son; this man in fact blinded himself. Ergo, religion is a form of mental illness.
It's stupid.
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The Daily Mail article is dated October 2011, and you posted in the R/T thread on this back then,
struggle4progress
Oct 2012
#20
You claim to be unable to distinguish between a poor man, who blinds himself after skipping
struggle4progress
Oct 2012
#27
The percentage of child sexual abuse for public school teachers is almost equal to
humblebum
Oct 2012
#50
There are also many reputable Christian counselors and psych professionals. nt
humblebum
Oct 2012
#51
As opposed to starting a thread based on the notion that atheism is a mental illness? That's OK?
2ndAmForComputers
Oct 2012
#71
You actually cut and paste a year old story about a schizophrenic to try to connect it to religion?
rug
Oct 2012
#14
So what's the difference between mental illness and hearing gods voice, when both tell you to kill?
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#32
Not clear who's dodging here. Perhaps you need to restate the topic at hand, as I answered
LARED
Oct 2012
#65
The behavior of the faithless and those with mental illness can sometimes be similar.
rug
Oct 2012
#30
When faithlesness becomes a method for treating mental illness, your point will be valid.
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#33
"The notion of hearing voices had a much different meaning three milennia ago than it does now."
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
#44