Are people who get violently fanatical over mere words, mentally disturbed?

Question

Especially in the context of religion where people get very fanatical very quickly. Abuse and direct violent attacks can occur over something as minor as a few words on a page.
TO attack and kill someone because of a particular belief system has been a problem for a very long time.
Is this a form of mental illness, a deranged mind trying to
make sense of the non-sensical?

Answer 1

a very good question, as a worker with mental health patent i have seen many sides of mental health but not by any means all, and i strongly think that fantaics on any subject are subject to the mental health system, and should be dealt with accordingly... i.e. at risk to self etc, this could involve sectioning and or medication. more money should be put into the mental health service to make such facilities more available.

Answer 2

Well, I don't use bad words such as the F word, or the both B words, or anything, I just state the truth, that they are stupid, dumb or retarded..... whats so bad in that? Nothing, it's just the truth.....

But I hate it when the other person has to reply back using such foul language, an comments about your religion.... and I still don't use that language back at them....

It's something people don't understand, swearing at someone will just make you a bad person, and you keep doing it, it will make things worse. And I'm not talking about the religious people, it's the people that don't have a religion, or hardly follow on, such as ex-muslims and atheists, they don't any respect, shame, kindness, or anything, they just lost everything....

And that is the truth.... savvy?

A Muslims Women, was harrased and threaten about her religion by christians, and she was forced to stop talking about Islaam on Yahoo! Answers, and now she left... look at this!?

That is disgusting of what those christians did! URGH!!!

You get such bad, and hatefull, people on Y!A, and they need to be sorted out.

Answer 3

We're all mentally disturbed. And we've a right to be. It's disturbing that words are used to misrepresent ideals that have been taught for 1000's of years for gains never intended!! Words can sway people, nations and create our future!
That said - violence and murder over words are just what the people who are spouting the words desire! They are using societies teachings against the people who have been so taught!

The words are just a means to an end. Keep the people fighting so they don't see what we're doing!!
We've NO IDEA the conniving, intricate schemes being conducted right under all our mentally disturbed noses!!
When will people stop long enough to ask - who, why, where, when, what - before they rush out to smite their neighbor with words?? Don't succumb to the the 'leader's' who want to use us this way.

Answer 4

It not a mental illness, even though it seems that way sometimes. remember good people with good beliefs die for them everyday, religious people are no different. I think when people who are so sure there god is the one god and they love him above all else, and you dont exactly agree, you run the risk of making them feel like you are saying they are wrong, that there god is not the right god and they have been following nothing. I think the one best thing religion can posess is hope. and if you take that away from a person, they will do anything.Act in anyway.

Answer 5

I don't think the majority are. It's similar to asking are women who scream and holler and have immature emotional fits that can hurt people emotionally, mentally disturbed? Most people in general get angry when they're passed their limit of tolerance, it's natural. Some express it physically, some do mentally, but both bring pain to others because of their fustration that they might have never had to deal with before.

I think your mentally disturbed if this is someones behavior all the time and for tiny things.

Answer 6

Yes first of all that's a definete yes. Also it's demonic and satanic polution of the mind and soul and he the devil is making these people war with one another and kill eachother then what? Hell I guess. No none of it makes sense at all that they kill eachother just for different oppinions or beliefs. Did u know that the koran actually despises killing your enemies just because they dissagree with you? So I've heard. Leave it to one or more bad apples to spoil the whole bunch. See even the Middle Eastern People are good people like us. Just some who are radicals and want it all their way and want to rule the world and if you don't agree with them then they kill you. That's a bunch of BULL ****.

Answer 7

You could say that but you must understand that a person's philosophical beliefs are central to the character of the person. When you criticise their beliefs, you strike at the core of the person as surely as a knife to the heart.

I do not condone violence but as a Buddhist person, a part of my philosophy is not to criticise the beliefs of others. It is difficult here though because so many of the questions and answers posed by christians are downright stupid. I also often criticise a refusal to accept a logical argument, dogma and the use of blind faith in arguments.

Answer 8

Some personalities get ridiculous about sport and politics too. I think a lack of self control to such a degree is a mental health problem particularly if it results in violence. There is a fervour and passion that is acceptable but trying to belittle opposing views or intimidate people is crossing a line.

Answer 9

nonetheless i've got faith in an stronger capability, i do no longer think in prepared faith. i think of it became devised as a fashion of administration and in the path of the years it has long previous uncontrolled. whilst as quickly because it regarded that it became to maintain human beings ethical and regulation abiding, now it has grew to become a justification for killing in the call of god, any god. (In historic previous as properly, evaluate the Romans feeding the Christians to the lions, the Christians and the pageans, etc.) And if I have been an stronger capability i could be telling them "no thank you, i can do my own killing, inspite of each and every thing, i'm god." something touched via human palms seems to grow to be corrupt, alongside with the bible. In end, my opinion is that folk who have faith in god at the instant are not all disturbed, yet people who use something, alongside with god for a reason to sell ill will, homicide, etc, are disturbed. as an occasion, Pat Robertson and President Bush.

Answer 10

Well, yes, you could say brain-washing is a form of mental illness... The most sinister thing is that it is human-induced, how evil is that? Nothing to do with religion, in my view, though: Politicians do the brain-washing and some of them use religion as a lever...