Religious Fundamentalism Mental Illness??

[Anonymous]

Thanks RW, this was fucking funny as well as true. Religious fundamentalism is a form of mental illness.



Religious fundamentalism could soon be treated as mental illness



Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness.



She made the assertion during a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday. She said that radicalizing ideologies may soon be viewed not as being of personal choice or free will but as a category of mental disorder. She said new developments in neuroscience could make it possible to consider extremists as people with mental illness rather than criminals.

She told The Times of London: "One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated. Someone who has for example become radicalized to a cult ideology -- we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance."

Taylor admits that the scope of what could end up being labelled "fundamentalist" is expansive. She continued: "I am not just talking about the obvious candidates like radical Islam or some of the more extreme cults. I am talking about things like the belief that it is OK to beat your children. These beliefs are very harmful but are not normally categorized as mental illness. In many ways that could be a very positive thing because there are no doubt beliefs in our society that do a heck of a lot of damage, that really do a lot of harm."



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[Frost]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

Of course it is Frosty. Labelling people as crazy who happen to have views outside the perceived mainstream is nothing new. This was a common tactic under Mao's reign of terror. We are really on a slippery sl@pe if that happens.

[Frost]

Shen, I know it was a joke, but the shame is many people take it seriously, and would push for it as you well know from your home country.

I'm a non believer, but right to worship peacefully should be a right.

Government should never be the state religion, not the sick liberal education system either.

[Anonymous]

Shen, I know it was a joke, but the shame is many people take it seriously, and would push for it as you well know from your home country.

I'm a non believer, but right to worship peacefully should be a right.

Government should never be the state religion, not the sick liberal education system either.

That's exactly what we had under Mao. My Mommy was 15 I believe when Mao died. She told me at the time, it was as if her god had died. She told me 10 years later she couldn't remember anything good about him.

[Frost]

Shen, I know it was a joke, but the shame is many people take it seriously, and would push for it as you well know from your home country.

I'm a non believer, but right to worship peacefully should be a right.

Government should never be the state religion, not the sick liberal education system either.

That's exactly what we had under Mao. My Mommy was 15 I believe when Mao died. She told me at the time, it was as if her god had died. She told me 10 years later she couldn't remember anything good about him.

I know, shame people don't learn for themselves, and question a belief system.

Mao, Stalin, the joke that is ruling North Korea, Obama even, none are gods, or worth looking up at.

[Anonymous]

Shen, I know it was a joke, but the shame is many people take it seriously, and would push for it as you well know from your home country.

I'm a non believer, but right to worship peacefully should be a right.

Government should never be the state religion, not the sick liberal education system either.

That's exactly what we had under Mao. My Mommy was 15 I believe when Mao died. She told me at the time, it was as if her god had died. She told me 10 years later she couldn't remember anything good about him.

I know, shame people don't learn for themselves, and question a belief system.

Mao, Stalin, the joke that is ruling North Korea, Obama even, none are gods, or worth looking up at.

That woman who wants to label people thinks her word is like the word of god.

[Renee]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

It's long been suspected that far left liberalism, was a mental illness.



We know this to be true because all one has to do is look at or listen to someone like Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz and it's all the proof you need.  ac_toofunny



For all you Canadians that may not know, those people I just mentioned are bat-shit, left-wing, "dementocrat", political figures here in the US. I don't think a dumber and more out of touch with reality crew of politicians can be found in the western world.   ac_umm

[Anonymous]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

It's long been suspected that far left liberalism, was a mental illness.



We know this to be true because all one has to do is look at or listen to someone like Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz and it's all the proof you need.  ac_toofunny



For all you Canadians that may not know, those people I just mentioned are bat-shit, left-wing, "dementocrat", political figures here in the US. I don't think a dumber and more out of touch with reality crew of politicians can be found in the western world.   ac_umm

We have the likes of Liz May, so I know what you mean. Anyway, I just hope Kathleen Turner's "crusade" does not gain mainstream traction. That would be really scary.

[Frost]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

It's long been suspected that far left liberalism, was a mental illness.



We know this to be true because all one has to do is look at or listen to someone like Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz and it's all the proof you need.  ac_toofunny



For all you Canadians that may not know, those people I just mentioned are bat-shit, left-wing, "dementocrat", political figures here in the US. I don't think a dumber and more out of touch with reality crew of politicians can be found in the western world.   ac_umm

Yes, they love to replace their reality with reality, it is a mental issue for sure.

Not that all liberals are that bad, but it don't take many to make them all look bad, especially when they keep voting for the nut cases.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they love to replace their reality with reality, it is a mental issue for sure.

Not that all liberals are that bad, but it don't take many to make them all look bad, especially when they keep voting for the nut cases.

Leftists can be very, very intolerant of differing opinions. That Taylor chick is a good example of that. She's dangerous.

[Renee]

It sounds like Kathleen Taylor has a mental illness to me, damn far left socialist BS.

How about sending everyone to a gulag now for reeducation under her supervision.

It's long been suspected that far left liberalism, was a mental illness.



We know this to be true because all one has to do is look at or listen to someone like Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz and it's all the proof you need.  ac_toofunny



For all you Canadians that may not know, those people I just mentioned are bat-shit, left-wing, "dementocrat", political figures here in the US. I don't think a dumber and more out of touch with reality crew of politicians can be found in the western world.   ac_umm

We have the likes of Liz May, so I know what you mean. Anyway, I just hope Kathleen Turner's "crusade" does not gain mainstream traction. That would be really scary.

I didn't know Kathleen Turner was on a crusade?



Here is a clip of one of her more memorable parts.  ac_toofunny

[Anonymous]

^Ooops, must have been thinking about heavyset, white American chicks. ac_razz  ac_dance

[Renee]

^Ooops, must have been thinking about heavyset, white American chicks. ac_razz  ac_dance

Who could blame you, we are "awesome".  ac_biggrin  



God I hate using that word.  ac_toofunny

[Anonymous]

^Ooops, must have been thinking about heavyset, white American chicks. ac_razz  ac_dance

Who could blame you, we are "awesome".  ac_biggrin  



God I hate using that word.  ac_toofunny

What, heavyset? How about full-figured or rubenesque? Anyway, it's funny how that name made me think of Kathleen Turner.