Insanity vs Religion?

Question

Why is it when someone claims they have a imaginary friend or can see ghosts...etc they are either insane or crazy but with the mass of people that say they can see god and talk to him it is only because their religion and no one thinks about it?

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I have to ask. How can someone "prove" they have seen god. So does this mean the only people that the church says that have seen god are part of the church?

Answer 1

Patience, have patience.
A couple hundred years ago, people who heard voices or had hallucinations were thought to be posessed by "demons." Science showed that these were mental illnesses, and after thousands of years of these poor people being abused, getting "exorcised," and never getting any better science found real treatments for their ailments that can actually help them.

In time, religious fervor and visions of god will also be officially recognized for the delusional diseases that they are, and will be treated similarly. Science will also surely come up with a cure for this mental deficiency. I look forward to it :)

Answer 2

Because when the majority speaks, people are hesitant to disagree.

Over the last few thousand years, it was not considered insanity to speak to imaginary friends, remember. So when some people did it, others believed them. They created a majority. And that majority has bred their insanity into their offspring as well.

At this point in history, it has become blatantly obvious that religion is insanity. However, this is the turning point. This is where mankind's intelligence is going to have to overcome the flaw of simply following the herd.

I hope I live to see the day that religion finally gets put in the ground where it belongs. But I'm thinking I probably won't. But boy, the stories I would tell my grandchildren if I did.... wow!

Answer 3

Not every one who says has seen God or an Angel is telling the truth....

... the church does not acknowledge the visions unless solid proof and sound research is available and forwarded....

... otherwise you will find people in streets cliaming they are prohpets by the thousands....

... wisdom is a gift from God!

Answer 4

uh, maybe because they want to believe it's something great. If you ask me, I use God as a principle of how an infinite reality would be managed, but I also enjoy not knowing, because that means that there will always be something that I will be able to realize. It's kind of cool even when it doesn't work out, but every now and then I have such a massive revelation that I think I'm actually right there with God himself. It's downright good.

Answer 5

Your idea of "seeing" and the religious idea of "seeing" are two different things.

When you say "One sees...", sight pertains to one's vision via their eyes.

When a religious person says, "I see...", sight pertains to one's faith. It has nothing to do with one's physical ability to use one's eyesight.

After all, the physically blind can still see God.

It was interesting that you chose the word "insane" when speaking of the religious. The definition of insanity has something to do with a disconnection from reality. Isn't that correct?

Well, God is the ultimate reality. Far from being disconnected from reality, to SEE and believe in God is to acknowledge is to "connect" with the ultimate reality.

Answer 6

An insane society will put the sane people behind bars and lable them nuts. Mass hysteria rules.

Answer 7

You misspelt your question. You typed "v" instead of "i".

When a child has an imaginary friend, we call it cute. When an adult has an imaginary friend, we call him crazy.


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Answer 8

You should be so lucky to experience such a thing.