2007-07-23 03:59:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I don't think belief in a higher power can be considered a mental disorder. I will pray for you.
2007-07-23 04:03:19 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
In support of your question,I saw a psychology article once that theorized that prior to widespread literacy - psychosis was common and accounts for the frequency of witnessed "miracles" which are not in evidence today.
The theory was that literacy provides grounding in reality.
But my answer to you is that some personalities are more comfortable with emotionally 'felt' knowledge than with facts that have hard evidence. It would seem that people have evolved that capacity and it must serve some purpose, so I am not sure it can be classified as a mental disease.
By the way, was this intended for the 'Politics' section?
2007-07-23 11:12:26 · answer #2 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If catching a mental disease means weighing the evidence around you and making a sane rational decision, that there is a God.
2007-07-23 11:19:34 · answer #3 · answered by tigrompy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...
Just look at the "Jim Jones" thing. Who can say that religion is not a mental disease?
We fight wars over something we have no conformation of, we pray to something we have no conformation of and we tithe to something we have no conformation of.
Sort of like having an “imaginary friend”.
Oh yeah, I forgot - there are some folks that missed their ride on Hailbop!
2007-07-23 11:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not a mental disease.
Just blunders and slip-ups with human errors in down loading
living human kind with ghostly kitchen's ghost stories with ghostly modern history of failures and horrors of the past in ghostly kitchen's dialect with ghostly and deadly words from the graveyards of different ancestor's custom in making a mess out there.
Luke 11.46
Ever wonder how children all function with garbage in and garbage out living in misery like a desk-top when they were living human kind on planet earth.
Luke 11.52
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors in kicking the butts of their own little one, own children own generation and living human kind without being aware of the mess created in own backyards.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
2007-07-23 11:33:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe.
"Internal diaologue" in the brain can be construed as an explanation for what is in the outer universe.
Or, as some nuts easily proove, superstition is crazy and designed to enslave the masses.
2007-07-23 11:11:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Relevance to Politics? Why don't you go stir up trouble in Religion & Spirituality?
2007-07-23 11:07:49 · answer #7 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you think the world was better before the birth of Chirst or better afterward? I would love you see you argue this one.
2007-07-23 11:06:49 · answer #8 · answered by John Galt 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ridiculous. Born, bred, proud Yankee here! Brought up under the ignorance of the Baptist Church.
2007-07-23 11:04:20 · answer #9 · answered by gone 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I refer to it as mass delusion.
2007-07-23 11:19:47 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋