Is religion a psychotic disorders?

Question

Psychotic disorders involve distorted awareness and thinking. Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -- and delusions -- false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary.
What do you think?

Answer 1

NO IT IS AN ADDICTION
BUT PROPHETS HAD A MENTAL DISORDER SCHIZOPHRENIA

Answer 2

You give 2 criterias for psychotic disorders: 1) the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices. Please, give me a break. What planet are you living on? 99.99% of religious people don't experience images or sounds that are not real. There are just as many atheists who experience images or sounds that are not real. People who experience images or sounds that are not real, religious or atheists, are called nutbags.
2) the experience of delusions -- false beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary.
In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times.
Considering that an atheists thinks that all that came about by just random chance........kind of like a monkey typing out the works of Shakespear just by randomly plucking away at the keys
of a typewriter.......considering that an atheists believes that the unbelieveable complexity of the human brain(not to mention the rest of the body) is nothing more than re-arranged pond scum, It’s pond scum from the original prebiotic soup re-arranged over billions of years into 100 trillion connections in the brain by luck…..just random chance........Considering that the atheist believes that dumb mud could somehow bootstrap itself into intelligence over billions of years simply by random chance luck........If you take all that into consideration, I would say, by your 2nd criteria that atheism is a psychotic disorder.

Answer 3

Not really. Perhaps you shouldn't try to do away with things you can't comprehend, as though you have genuine evidence that certain things can't be. Sure there are some religious people that can be assumed to have some disorders, but really what you have is the need to be apart of a group mindset instead of standing on their own because they can't cope with life - if you ask me there is a higher reality why people are in the various religions and why people are atheist, but I won't waste your time with that.. Religion, like Christianity for instance, is much like a AA meeting, where some of the people who are so utterly immersed in a negative cycle of life go their to meet individuals who were much like themselves and others who have been raised up in the church, and this group mindset together provides for the individual and he/she is able to cope with life in a more at ease fashion. However when one becomes bound to the group mindset/prospective they become adherents to the limitations of it. So they become superstitious and etc.

As for the others as in hearing voices, who to say that there isn't something talking to them? You? A little man on earth who can measure his experiential knowledge within a sec of consciousness? Are you so delusional as to think you have a great grip on reality? What evidence supports that your life isn't a illusion, and that your beliefs are based on a illusion, on a concrete sensory, perceptive conclusion that is generally lacking in the totality of experience. Why do people have to be delusion to experience higher reality, i don't get it, what because you haven't? Mystics of old have been saying similar things that Quantum Physics have just asserted recently. Too bad your idea is basically negated in many ways considering even those who are not religious experience paranormal things. I guess we are all psychotic then by your estimation, most people experience things just with some they deny it or call it a disorder like yourself.

Answer 4

Listen to "Shinzy" and others. Counseling/therapy and medication do help. I'm Bipolar, PTSD, borderline OCD. And I have anger issues like you would not believe. But I have learned to keep those "dragons" (aka "demons") in the basement. It took a lot of years of work to do that, but after 16 years of playing "cops and robbers", including 10 years in prison, I decided I'd better learn how to do things differently. So I've done therapy off and on for the last 25 years and on the 4th of July, I celebrate 25 years to the day since I walked out of prison and never went back. Trust me, you do NOT need to live like that. As far as religion, I'm agnostic. I attend a christian church because they are a loving/caring community and having that kind of support helps. They are mainstream Presbyterian, very into community outreach. And they have become "family" over the last 7 years. Humans are pack animals, we all need community. Blessings on your Journey!

Answer 5

I don't think so. But I do think people can have some kind of psychotic disorder that makes them go to extremes with religion. For example, when people kill other people and they say that God or the devil told them to do it.I think that's a disorder that's is over looked alot.

Answer 6

well, religion is definitely not a psychotic disorders. It could be a pdychotic disorder, but you should first learn how to express yourself and then study religion.. This is why you cannot understand it

Answer 7

Good point. Anyone who believes the bible is the literal truth is extremely deluded. I won't say the religious have a psychotic disorder, but they are certainly weak minded.

Answer 8

It is probably not a valid blanket statement, but, unquestionably, it describes a significant percentage of religious people. I truly believe that most 'religious' people are more conformist minded than truly 'committed' You raised a good point, though.

Answer 9

ha ha, i cant believe you people!!! religion is what we use to make it through this shitty life! not all of us are fanatic "OHHH I SEE THE FACE OF GOD" christians, but i have to believe in somethin or i just couldnt make it through!! and if that theory was true wouldnt we all have mental disorder cause there is always gonna think were crazy about how we feel! if you dont believe in god then you get criticized and if you do then you get hounded!!! wtf????

Answer 10

Humans are social animals and humans are more powerful if they stand together.

Religion is just a tool to unite people.

Answer 11

KEEP THINKING THIS WAY AND GOD MAY TAKE AWAY YOUR BRAIN DUDE CUZ IT'S EYES THAT GIVE IMAGE TO THE BRAIN ALLOWING YOU VISION TO SEE THUS COULD IT BE CONSIDERED AS A HALLUCINATION!