Originally Posted by Lekatt

Except there is no self deception, and the personal experience of God takes away all fear of death. Spiritual people do not fear death at all.

Understanding nothing, the ignorant answer all quesions.

Originally Posted by whichphilosophy

You can try these two already written


The Myth of Mental Illness
The Manufacture of Madness

By Thomas Szaz

Originally Posted by WishboneDawn

Your answer was as ignorant and assuming as th statement you responded.

Originally Posted by scisyhp

That is not what I said, I said the DSM-IV says that a mental illness is something that severly interferes with a persons life mentally, now religion plays a role and interferes with how a person views the world from a logical and anylitical viewpoint and thus would be considered a mental ilness under the DSM-IV interperatation. Religion may not considered a mental illness catagory currentally, but from the phylosophical standpoint of the DSM-IV it should be. Psychology is an inperfect science, as all sciences are, things that are mental disorders, but are not recognized as mental disorders, may not currentally be recognized in the approperiate manner, severe depression was not always viewed as a mental illness, but now it is, and I believe that the same can be said about religion, it may not currentally recognized, but it is, and one day will be.

Originally Posted by Lekatt

If that could view religious extremists as mentally ill, then it could view skeptical extremists as mentally ill also.

Now who is going to define extremists, me or you?

Originally Posted by scisyhp

Personally, I see people who blow themselfs up in public squares, those who kill abortion doctors, or burn down clinics becouse they're "not Christian" as religious extremists, now "skeptical extremists" are not harming themselfs or others with their views, and the DSM-IV would not see this as a mental defect. Religious extremists however do harm people.