Did anyone else notice that religious people fit the definition for schizophrenia remarkably well?

Question

How about some serious discussion on this,mixed with opinions from some of the faithful (just for laughs)...

Please make use of the dictionary before you respond...and don't let the name get your chemistry going before you look at this with a little logic.
Think of me as neutral for just this one time.This is a serious question.

Angry little flockers,aren't you?
Oh well,I tried.
Perhaps I will again,with a little more effort.Sometime when I am a little less tired.

CHARMSTER:
Straight from your response;
"Delusions - false beliefs of persecution, guilt or grandeur or being under outside control.
Hallucinations - most commonly involving hearing voices. Other less common experiences can include seeing, feeling, tasting or smelling things which to the person are real but which are not actually there."
-WAY OFF? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Answer 1

Your user names is Satan
So you seem to be attaching yourself into a religious group as well. At least I can say I'm neutral and in spirit so to say. So tell me what force drove you to ask this question? How could the common public actually give a true diagnosis for schizophrenia through the thought process brought on by your question?? Bla Bla Bla I'm not about to not answer this! Yes religious people of any religion I think would be categorized as so. It is cool our world has all these names for different disorders we carry among us! I would possess many if I diagnosed myself.

Answer 2

Symptoms of Schizophrenia:
Delusions - false beliefs of persecution, guilt or grandeur or being under outside control.
Hallucinations - most commonly involving hearing voices. Other less common experiences can include seeing, feeling, tasting or smelling things which to the person are real but which are not actually there.
Thought Disorder - where the speech may be difficult to follow; for example, jumping from one subject to another with no ligical connection. The person may think someone is interfering with their mind.
Loss of Drive, Blunted expression of emotions, Social withdrawal, Lack of insight or awareness of other conditions, Thinking difficulties.
No, I don't think religious people fit the definition at all. I know many religious people who don't fit it. I know a number of schitzo's and they don't fit the religious box either.
Sorry mate you are way off.

Answer 3

This is the typical type of commentary that is insulting to people of various faiths. The principles behind any religion are a faith in a higher power, the desire for morality in one's life, and the need to become a better person through redemption and a relationship with God.

I will admit that religious zealotry and fundamentalism are frightening. In some cases, it is inclusive, and in other cases, revolutionary. We understand little behind the psychology of such a mentality in a person. I think anyone, no matter how much he is conditioned, will have schisms and conflicts in himself. That is assuming he has a conscience.

That is why I don't buy the argument that the Germans didn't 'know what was happening in WWII'. I have nothing against the Germans of today but that argument is moot with me.

In North America, there are deprogrammers to help people caught up in the cycle of cultish behaviour surrounding religious fanaticism.

I would endeavor to speculate that many of the more dangerous types of zealots, like militant Communists, have paranoid, sociopathic, violent tendencies.

Answer 4

There are literally billions of religious people. Also the "definition of shizophrenia" is extemely broad and vague.
It sounds like what you are really trying to say is "religious people are crazy idiots, huh?"
My answer is some are and some aren't but the behavior of the ones who are is so bad that asking about the whole thing makes sense.

Answer 5

1 : a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought (as delusions), perception (as hallucinations), and behavior -- called also dementia praecox -- compare PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA
2 : contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes


obviously you are either illiterate or just heavily drinking, OR just referring to extremism. Perhaps you are an athiest who worships money. All of us dont go fly planes into buildings just because of our religion. Just because you have nowhere to put your faith doesnt mean that religious believers are all psychotic.

You seem to have an excessive amount of time on your hands..so heres something just for you;)

If you want to see psychotic institutions/people look up the S.O.A. School Of the Americas/School of Assassins..
or your "friendly" national government...

Look up Richard Dawkins' Documentary - Religion: The Root Of All Evil?
you seem to remind me of him.
amusing...

Answer 6

Wow. Since I am faithful (some of us actually hate the term "religious"), I guess you're waiting for me to get all upset and hysterical that you're insulting people of faith. Oooooh... you are so scary "Satan" (gosh, that's sure original). Thanks for reinforcing my thought that people who have so much time on their hands they can sit around and intentionally try to poke and prod a reaction out of other people will certainly make good kindling for the netherworld, for nothing else but that very reason. Why don't you run along and go enjoy "Saw III" or play a violent videogame will you?

Answer 7

There is some truth in what you say.

If any form of bigotry (whether religious or racial or political) is based on deep-rooted hatred or unforgiveness, this indicates a spiritual imbalance of negative concentrated energy.

I have heard the following groups refer to such manifestations as a "disease" which I take to mean a "spiritual disease" or affliction in the spirit:

(1) Michael Savage refers to liberalism as a mental disease.
(2) AA refers to alcoholism as a disease (can be related to physical addiction, genetic tendency, and also spiritual/psychological addiction)
(3) The Bahai "Center for the Healing of Racism" refers to racism as a "disease" that spreads and is passed generationally

The only way this makes sense to me is to specify that such conditions involve a disease of the spirit. Then they are all forms of a spiritual affiction manifesting emotionally/mentally, psychologically and physically.

Note: For documented cases of spiritual treatment of schizophrenia caused by spiritual infestation, please read "Healing" by Francis MacNutt. I do believe his research and healing ministry will lead to medical and scientific proof of the connection between spiritual illness and treating symptoms that manifest as psychological and physical conditions.

Answer 8

more info please,how do you figure that?what's your reasoning?If you want a serious discussion or a debate ,you need to make your point,argument ,I just don't see the resemblance between the two and I have seen both .schizo people look like something out of the exorcist.and just for laughs ,how many personalities do you have satan?

Answer 9

It would seem from your username that you definitely believe in a good force and an evil force that surrounds our existence. One or the other will control our thoughts, actions and eventually our destinations. So, truthfully and sadly, you will find faults with both, non-believers and believers. To believe that your group, non-believers as I assume, are the most correct and without blemish, is about as riduculous as believing in the tooth fairy. But then again, my belief warns me against judgement and tells me to love with the love of Christ so,,,,here goes,,,,I love you man, and good luck with your questions and concerns.

Answer 10

LMAO now that you mention it.....but then again, quite a few non-religious people fit that profile well. Maybe it is just lots of people do and you happen to only have noticed it on religious people?