>There is perhaps no greater contribution one could make to contain and perhaps even cure faith than removing the exemption that prohibits classifying religious delusions as mental illness. The removal of religious exemptions from the DSM would enable academicians and clinicians to bring considerable resources to bear on the problem of treating faith, as well as on the ethical issues surrounding faith-based interventions. In the long term, once these treatments and this body of research is refined, results could then be used to inform public health policies designed to contain and ultimately eradicate faith.
There is perhaps no greater contribution one could make to contain and perhaps even cure faith than removing the...
Michael Sullivan
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Eli Miller
I wonder if he supports the re-inclusion of homosexuality, a condition that was removed due to social pressures and not scientific assessment.
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Henry Richardson
This idiot doesn't understand psychiatry, psychology, mental illness, or religion.
Adrian Perry
Actually there has been a push in academic psychiatry in recent years to treat religious fanaticism as a mental illness. Rightfully so, for that is what it is.
When you have a set of beliefs that persist despite being totally dissociated from evidence that is the definition of insanity. If you have beliefs which cause you to ostracize groups of people for an arbitrary and undeserved reason, that is an anti-social personality trait.
If you have beliefs cause demonstrated harm to yourself or others, or otherwise holds back an accurate picture of reality, you have low insight, another symptom of mental illness
Asher Allen
Theism is a mental illness.
Andrew Nguyen
>being irrational is a mental illness
You don't know dick about what you're talking about
Jack Barnes
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Lincoln Baker
Sam "Carpetbomb the Shitskins" Harris of all people should know that psychology is a joke and nobody takes mental disorder classifications seriously. In 10 years neither transgender nor autism will be considered as mental anything, just "being different".
Jeremiah Brown
Everything you just said applies more to atheists like you than most religious people.