Do most Christians have undiagnosed schizophrenia?

Question

They sure seem to talk to imaginary people an awful lot.

Answer 1

no more than the same percentage of any other walk of life. well, maybe less, we have God on our side. God bless.

Answer 2

Undiagnosed !!! You just made an un-professional diagnoses. So are you professionally educated and trained to make that diagnoses ??? Or is it you who imagine all of this. Sounds like an illness and I really can't tell, until I speak with you some more. Are you willing to speak with a professional Christian ? Then I will make a diagnoses to see if your ok.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia is not the same as multiple personality disorder. I suppose asking you to become less ignorant about religion is unlikely to do much, so instead maybe you should learn more about psychology. Or find a hobby...

Answer 4

Sometimes it bothers others when Christians seem to rely on what you are calling "imaginary" people. What seems to bother them is how much they cannot bring themselves to BELIEVE. Christians are first and foremost BELIEVERS in the spiritual realm, controlled by a single living God who controls this world through His precepts and principles. To the unbeliever, like youself, it is hard to have FAITH, which is merely BELIEF in these things and actions to prove it.

What is even more confounding for you is when belief is acted upon like factual reality, which for the believer, IT IS a factual reality. There is NO doubt God exists and their is NO need to prove it to folks like yourself who do not belief. Most of us are content to just KNOW this and NOT need to prove it.

Yet, when we were unbelievers like yourself, we had to take these ideas and precepts out into the world and TEST them out to see if they would stand or fail. They stood the test and became fact for us.

Until YOU take the precepts of God about love, kindness, peace, patience, etc out into the world and put it to the test, you will not know what it is that Believers KNOW. No one can tell another about it nor tell them to believe. It is an individual testing which must take place in each person's life.

Answer 5

Everyone on here is talking to people they can't see!!!

Actually though, it's only schizophrenia IF the imaginary person talks back.

Which, they do, they keep asking and answering questions.

Answer 6

I think that a lot of "prophets" have been schizoid. Muhammad, Joesph Smith, and many of the classic prophets in the bible. Religious people aren't mentally ill, they're just gullable enough to believe in the whacked out things these "prophets" have come up with in their delusional state.

Answer 7

I really think so - especially those born again freaks.

My poor cousin who has been distant from the family for a long time is now one of them. She recently told me she can speak in tongues and wants to spend her inheritance handing out free bibles in the congo and russia.

Answer 8

Being both a psychology person with 3 graduate degrees and a christian I feel I can answer this question with a great clarity which dignifies the aura which surrounds this question.
Maybe

Answer 9

That's harsh but you have a point. The majority of religious people don't seem very rational, and they are very defensive as you can see on this page.

Answer 10

My mother is a bonified diagnosed schizophrenic. She makes more sense than a lot of Christians even when her medication fails her.

Answer 11

Could be, but many adults have undiagnosed bipolarity and ADD.....what was I talking about?