What would we think about adults who still believe in santa or the easter bunny?
2006-12-09 02:05:51 · 31 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
how is santa/the easter bunny a different issue? you tell the story to kids, you never see them, but all the evidence you need is in books...of course you don't go to hell for not believing, maybe there's something there. ANd they don't always need $$$
2006-12-09 02:17:42 · update #1
CHARLES:
No, it is not a mental illness, but remarks like this are certainly suspect as to the stability of the question askers heart and soul.
GOD BLESS YOU
2006-12-09 02:10:53 · answer #1 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Looking around in this world leads you to think?How in the world could their not be a god putting every thing in it's right order. actually gust the thaught of thinkin that this univers has no creater (and I mean only on creater) is sheer mentel illness for how could someone see all these evedents (how the sky is held up with no columens and how the ground is steaded by the mountains how a bee could eat a cherry leaf and it turns into hony,adeer eats it and it turns into a butiful sent and how a worm cuold eat it and it turns into silk!!!) and still say that god does not egzest.
These are many evedents leading to know that this world was created in perfect measurs so that nothing can over come somthing else and all for man kind.
Now the question is how could buliving in God be considered a mental illness????
2006-12-09 02:40:36 · answer #2 · answered by sahara sunrise 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dont know I do know meglamaniacs are always telling other people how to think what to think and have a God complex. Most people who cant just live and let live who cant just let others beleive what makes there days a little bit better for them in this tough world are pretty sick and cruel people. they have to crap on others.
What Kind of sick person tells a kid there is no santa clause.
I guess that the question you should be asking
2006-12-09 02:33:26 · answer #3 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you can consider it whatever you want. Believing in God has actually HELPED my mental state. I know you are probably frustrated by people who "believe in God" - because you can't see it, touch it, feel it - whatever - and it just seems goofy. MY version of GOD is simply Love. God is Love. It's very easy to believe in Love - and see it - and feel it. It doesn't judge us - or look down at us like some big Daddy in the sky. It's just the Power of Love and it works in and through all things. So I don't think I'm mentally ill. But I do still believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny to a degree. So you can consider that whatever you'd like!
Namaste!
2006-12-09 02:12:04 · answer #4 · answered by liddabet 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Technically, to be mentally ill you must
1. Deviate from society's norm
2. Exhibit maladaptive behavior
3. Have feelings of personal distress
So really it depends on who exactly is doing the believing. Certainly, there are people who can fall into those categories following their beliefs. However, If they can maintain their beliefs as well as function in society without harming themselves or others-- clearly they are not mentally ill. On the other hand, if their beliefs are so strong that they cannot function, then it is possible for that individual to be mentally ill.
2006-12-09 02:14:39 · answer #5 · answered by pibb 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist but I don't believe it's an illness. People want to believe that there is life after death because they don't want to think that their life on Earth is all there is. It's called hope, and it helps people in difficult situations. It often gives them a goal in life.
I personnally think it's fear of the unknown that has made people believe in a God in the first place. But that's not your question, so I won't go into that.
2006-12-09 02:13:45 · answer #6 · answered by Offkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One theory of mental illness is that it's simply what's out of step with the way that mainstream society functions. Our brains do some very bizarre things, especially re interpreting ourselves and our place in society (we tend to over-value ourselves and what we affiliate ourselves with), so it's a matter of chance that a certain set of oddities is labeled mental illness and 'normal' isn't.
So it's very possible to make a reasonable case for religion as being a case of collective delusion. One that has benefits. And down-sides.
2006-12-09 02:18:19 · answer #7 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Not for me.
2. I think it's fine to still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Adults who still believe are keeping their inner child alive.
2006-12-09 02:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
actual conversing to an imaginary pal isn't a symptom of psychological ailment. a individual knows that the pal is imaginary. As for the delusional schizophrenic, the affected person truly DOES hear voices and see pictures which at the instant are not there. a individual who has an imaginary pal does not show those symptoms. meanwhile, i'm at present writing to an objective marketplace to which I have not have been given any info exists.
2016-10-14 08:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are worse mental illnesses but yes. Belief in god is a sort of intellectual languor akin to voting a party ticket. Sometimes you just don't want to figure everything out.
2006-12-09 02:15:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believing in God is not at all a mental illness. Adults believing in santa or the easter bunny would be a different issue, don't you think?
2006-12-09 02:09:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 6⤋