is religion a behavioural personality disorder?

Question

people with personality disorders defend and protect aspects of their beliefs to the death, even if they know it could be irrational, and regardless of wheather the whole world tells them they are wrong.

Answer 1

I don't know if it's a personality disorder, but there is clearly a mental deficiency that is common among the religious community. I tend to think that it is due to the fact that they are more dependent upon the primitive reptilian area of the brain and less dependent upon the higher functioning cerebral cortex. The reptilian brain is that area that is responsible for fear, aggression, territoriality and the willingness to follow leaders blindly.

This deficiency of the brain helps to explain why that same group of people who embrace the ghosts and goblins of religion; and who embrace fairy tales where not one shred of proof exists, and whose previous findings have been laid to waste by the efforts of science, are also the targets of the blatant lies perpetuated by the Republican Party. They know a good audience when they see one.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time; and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." -- G.W. Bush

Answer 2

For some, religion is a personality disorder. Have a look at the anti-social Muslims. All religions have cultish behavior. It depends upon the person.

Answer 3

Well if we were to go off of the norms of humanity then Atheists would have the behavioral personality disorder

Answer 4

I first heard the term BPD as quickly as I experienced a breakdown exceptionally much 2 years in the past & finally sought scientific suggestion. As i became experiencing dramatic fluxes between intense & low moods, I initially thought I had Bipolar sickness. until eventually i became clinically determined, i became unaware of the indications & reasons of BPD, or perhaps that it existed in any respect. even with learning the subject rely drastically, I certainly have encountered subject in getting access to the scientific care & suggestion had to help my restoration. so as to attempt by contrast debilitating sickness, i think better information would desire to be provided, no longer in basic terms to the final public, yet additionally to those scientific practitioners to blame for its diagnosis & scientific care.

Answer 5

Is a lack of religion sociopathic? Or are both ideas very bad stereotypes that undermine peaceful co-existence?

Answer 6

Please don't tar all religious people with the same brush. Some fundamentalists and extreme conservatives may well have such traits, other religious people (like myself) identify as liberals and strongly welcome rational interrogation of their faith. Most religious people are just ordinary folks doing the best they can. Your condescension is unhelpful.

Answer 7

How do you figure.. Because what you wrote above is absolute garbage..?

Well i guess that most of the world has personality disorders.. And its up to you smart ones to help us?
Nothing Suss!

Answer 8

Sounds like that can apply to an atheist or scientist as well.

Sounds like it applies to Fidel Castro.

Answer 9

everybody in a body does that!

Answer 10

Well duh.
We already knew they were all retards. Tell us something new. ¬_¬