2006-07-05 21:05:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
NO ATHEISM IS NOT A DISORDER OF THE MIND IT A DISORDER OF THE HEART
AND A MEANS OF NOT HAVING TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR LIFE THAT ONE LIVES OR FAILS TO LIVE IN MOST CASES
2006-07-05 21:13:40 · answer #1 · answered by His servant 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism is far from a mental disorder. It is a healthy scepticism. Believing in some unseen, yet omnipotent/omniscient Diety who is supposed to be loving and kind and yet lets natural disasters, man-caused mayhem, and other things which appear to the atheist as evil occur, now that is unhealthy.
Think about that. A person comes in to a psychiatrist's office and says I believe (although I have no proof) that there is this invisible being and it has superhuman powers and it loves me. And although it could stop bad things from happening to me, it doesn't. In fact, it sometimes rewards really bad people while allowing good people including children come down with horrible diseases.
Long ago this same being used to call for blood sacrifices, stoning of children, burning up captives. But now it is better. It had a son who looked just like us. I mean you could not tell that it was the kid of this invisible being. Well, we killed the being's kid and now the invisible being loves us again.
Pretty soon the guys in the white coats would be coming to get you. And yet you ask if not believing this story is a disorder?
I am not an atheist. Fact is I have had two direct experiences in The Light, the Presence of the Ineffable. Changed my life forever. I do not need a religion nor anyone to go between me and that. I am not afraid of dying. I want no followers, no converts. What I felt and saw was incredible love and acceptance.
Maybe sometime later I will wrestle with the concepts of good and evil here. Not using the maps of Christianity but in some commonsense approaches of why.
In the meantime, if any should read these words and need comfort, from someone was is still here (against his will but in conformance to HIS Will), Shalom (peace) and know you are deeply loved. Beyond this is a place of love.
2006-07-06 04:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by NeoArt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the proper question should be Can christian fundamentalism be a psychological disorder? Those are the people who display signs of mental disease. Fixating on an outward cause for their problems(the devil), refusing to accept common knowledge or proven theories( evolution, science), fixating on an object as the source of their knowledge and truth( the bible), obsessive-compulsive disorder( quoting scriptures whenever they meet with anything that is not in agreement with their views on anything)
Get my point? Anything can be considered a psychological disorder if looked at from the wrong angle.
2006-07-06 04:18:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You people aren't even trying to think anymore. You've just totally given it up. ANY school of thought promulgates those ideas. Education, information and the act of thinking is what creates atheism.
2006-07-06 09:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by tenaciousd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How could atheism anymore be a psychological disorder than being a religious finatic? We are all hard-wired to believe & believe in certain things, by our forefathers & foremothers, all of us. The so-called "school-of-thought" is from life itself & the ones who teach us.
2006-07-06 04:16:26 · answer #5 · answered by Smokie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If so, why is it when a person says God or Satan made them do something or someone claims to be possessed by demons or someone says God spoke to them, they are locked in a psychiatric hospital? How is not believing in all those things a sign of psychological disorder?
2006-07-06 04:10:33 · answer #6 · answered by jd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think clear, logical thinking is a "psychological disorder", you yourself need your head examined.
2006-07-06 09:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
& the idiots school of thoughts
2006-07-06 04:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what school of thought teaches the preaches?
oh i know, recruitment for jesus is it? no, maybe jehovah. no no WAIT i got it!! this time its allah right? hmmmm.... well, buddah doesn't make self righteous bible thumpers so at least i can count him out.
2006-07-06 04:09:13 · answer #9 · answered by tami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it's a disorder, just ignorance. they think we fell out of the sky. rofl
2006-07-06 04:08:57 · answer #10 · answered by suga189 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋