Do you think religion is a mental condition?

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Answer 1

Yes,,,Humans want love acceptance and to be exulted for all there wrong doings, GOD does all that...so even if Religion is Bullshit which it is...i think for the Human race its was necessary for our success that we created god...

I kill you for god..makes you seem less evil..
I hate you for Jesus...makes it seem more acceptable..

Religion is a Crutch..

we are still barbarians really..were just the firsts ones with computers..

Answer 2

I think Religion is the way to reach God, So Human Created Religion. Nowadays on this crisis of the world, Human searches for God, and many of them found the fake God, they found god not GOD. People realize that there are supernatural power beyond this universe, people need help, pople are curious about other existence that cannot be seen. For Example What is born first "Egg or The Hen?" The Answer wont be revealed without the understanding of religion. Other case is Noone in this world know exactly the mystery of our brain? That is a small thing but can hold many datas, even a tryliun giga byte which a harddisk cannot do it, Who gave the brain? I am sure you will think of it.
So the conclusion of Religion is Human Curiousity Finding The Unseen Power, God Bless You

Answer 3

No, religion is not a mental condition, but it is based on an interal desire to understand the world around them. Notice the more Science finds out about the world, the less people go to church? This is no coincidence. Before people understood how things worked there was a God for everything. Religion is a combination of lack of understanding, fear that there is no afterlife, and Tall Tales passed down the years that were eventually accepted as reality.

Answer 4

Religions are an organized cosmogony of the human existence. Everyone has some sort of religion (even though some people call it philosophy or ideology, it's always passionate and not-motivated as any other religion)

I don't think why some people try to see religion as some kind of condition. Maybe you're confusing extremism with religion...

Answer 5

I think you have that backwards most of the people that are on here that are against Religion need a therapist, some of them have anger issues about God and Religion. Some are just immature and rude. Some are just plain nasty towards Religious people, a good talk with a therapist might help figure out why. And I know some ,so called Christians can go right back at them, and it isn't right for them to do it either. I say so called, because it isn't Christian like to do it.

Answer 6

No, but a religious experience may cause a condition. Our brains do undergo a slight chemical change when we have a "religious experience." I've only experience this three times. When both of my daughters were born and when I got to visit Norte Dame de Paris. I broke down into tears for no reason at all, and yet it was a very empowering.

Answer 7

Yes, definately. People want to fill in the gaps somehow...otherwise, they would drive themselves crazy. "Why are we here" would be a tough question to deal with without a God.


Some of us manage though: I'm agnostic and very content with my life. I don't need ALL the answers...I want the ones I can prove.

Religion becomes "delusional" when you don't question your faith and blindly accept every aspect of it. That's what people mean by being called "brainwashed"...it's SUPPOSED to be natural for humans to inquire and examine...and when you don't, well that's being brainwashed....and yes. I might call that a mental condition (though not all religious people are brainwashed, but I'd say a good bit don't examine enough and accept too much). As for me: after 14 years of Catholic school, I've seen as much of religion as I can stand.

Answer 8

Yes, my mental condition is Presbyterian Church in America. It started, if you ask some, with Joh Calvin. Then those Puritan people who made Harvard. It's all over the south now. Weird disease. I am taking medication for it.

Answer 9

So if you do not believe in God why are you coming in here trying to insult us? Are you that bored that you have nothing better to do? And to answer your question- no it is not a mental condition. It is based on Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins. Our Bible is our guidebook. Faith keeps us strong. But then again you probably did not even understand any of that.

Answer 10

I believe we consist of mental, physical and spiritual; therefore, true religion--not that which has fallen into mere supersitition--has the capacity to improve all three aspects of ourselves. Whenever we improve any one of the three, we automatically improve the other two aspects. Religion is the way to improve all three aspects of our being.

53: THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND THE CREATURE
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Question.—What is the nature of the connection between God and the creature—that is to say, between the Independent, the Most High, and the other beings?
Answer.—The connection between God and the creatures is that of the creator to the creation; it is like the connection between the sun and the dark bodies of contingent beings, and is the connection between the maker and the things that he has made. The sun in its own essence is independent of the bodies which it lights, for its light is in itself and is free and independent of the terrestrial globe; so the earth is under the influence of the sun and receives its light, whereas the sun and its rays are entirely independent of the earth. But if there were no sun, the earth and all earthly beings could not exist.
The dependence of the creatures upon God is a dependence of emanation—that is to say, creatures emanate from God; they do not manifest Him. 1 The relation is that of emanation and not that of manifestation. The light of the sun emanates from the sun; it does not manifest it. The appearance through emanation is like the appearance of the rays from the luminary of the horizons of the world—that is to say, the holy essence of the Sun of Truth is not divided and does not descend to the condition of the creatures. In the same way, the globe of the sun does not become divided and does not descend to the earth. No, the 203 rays of the sun, which are its bounty, emanate from it and illumine the dark bodies.
But the appearance through manifestation is the manifestation of the branches, leaves, blossoms and fruit from the seed; for the seed in its own essence becomes branches and fruits, and its reality enters into the branches, the leaves and fruits. This appearance through manifestation would be for God, the Most High, simple imperfection; and this is quite impossible, for the implication would be that the Absolute Preexistent is qualified with phenomenal attributes. But if this were so, pure independence would become mere poverty, and true existence would become nonexistence, and this is impossible.
Therefore, all creatures emanate from God—that is to say, it is by God that all things are realized, and by Him that all beings have attained to existence. The first thing which emanated from God is that universal reality, which the ancient philosophers termed the “First Mind,” and which the people of Bahá call the “First Will.” This emanation, in that which concerns its action in the world of God, is not limited by time or place; it is without beginning or end—beginning and end in relation to God are one. The preexistence of God is the preexistence of essence, and also preexistence of time, and the phenomenality of contingency is essential and not temporal, as we have already explained one day at table. 2
Though the “First Mind” is without beginning, it does not become a sharer in the preexistence of God, for the existence of the universal reality in relation to the existence of God is nothingness, and it has not the power to become an associate of God and like unto Him in preexistence. This subject has been before explained.
The existence of living things signifies composition, and their death, decomposition. But universal matter and the elements do not become absolutely annihilated and destroyed. 204 No, their nonexistence is simply transformation. For instance, when man is annihilated, he becomes dust; but he does not become absolutely nonexistent. He still exists in the shape of dust, but transformation has taken place, and this composition is accidentally decomposed. The annihilation of the other beings is the same, for existence does not become absolute nonexistence, and absolute nonexistence does not become existence.
1. This subject, of emanation and manifestation, is more fully explained in the following chapter. [ Back To Reference]
2. Cf. “Real Preexistence,” p. 280. [ Back To Reference]

Answer 11

Instituionalized religion is basically a government. Religion is merely a common train of thought to achieve a sense of belonging, or relative importance to the masses.