American Psychological Association To Classify Belief in God
Jul 29, 2015 21:50:29 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2015 21:50:29 GMT -6
Yes, you read that right - Psychologists are going to label anyone who believes in fallacy over common sense when it comes to God - as mental illness! It's a brand new world - in which psychologists can take away given rights with the flowing ink of their pen.
A devout belief in God? Jesus is coming back? You are mentally ill!
However, their reasoning seems quite sound!
Dr. Lillian Andrews, professor of psychology, stated, “Every year thousands of people die after refusing life-saving treatment on religious grounds. Even when being told ‘you will die without this treatment’ patients reject the idea and believe that their God will still save them. Those lives could be saved simply by classifying those people as mentally unfit for decision making.”
“Jehovah Witnesses for instance,” Dr. Andrews continued, “will not accept blood under any circumstance. They would rather die than to receive life-saving donor blood. Many religious people believe they have “healing power” in their hands. Many believe they can communicate with God using a personal language, which is unknown to anyone but the communicator and God (known as speaking in tongues). Many often tell of seeing spirits. All of these are signs of a mental break and a loss of touch with reality. Religious belief and the angry God phenomenon has caused chaos, destruction, death, and wars for centuries. The time for evolving into a modern society and classifying these archaic beliefs as a mental disorder has been long overdue. This is the first of many steps to a positive direction.”
With the new classification, the APA will lobby to introduce legislation which would allow doctors the right to force life-saving treatment on those who refuse it for spiritual reasons on the grounds that they are mentally incapable of making decisions about their health.
“Jehovah Witnesses for instance,” Dr. Andrews continued, “will not accept blood under any circumstance. They would rather die than to receive life-saving donor blood. Many religious people believe they have “healing power” in their hands. Many believe they can communicate with God using a personal language, which is unknown to anyone but the communicator and God (known as speaking in tongues). Many often tell of seeing spirits. All of these are signs of a mental break and a loss of touch with reality. Religious belief and the angry God phenomenon has caused chaos, destruction, death, and wars for centuries. The time for evolving into a modern society and classifying these archaic beliefs as a mental disorder has been long overdue. This is the first of many steps to a positive direction.”
With the new classification, the APA will lobby to introduce legislation which would allow doctors the right to force life-saving treatment on those who refuse it for spiritual reasons on the grounds that they are mentally incapable of making decisions about their health.
I wonder - if it will stop there though? At what point do they use this ruling - to target and demonize whole groups of religious people as being crazy? If your a westboro baptist - will this ruling affect their right to own a gun? Is there a deeper, darker motive? Or is this a positive move by psychologists - which ultimately will help to further the separation between religion and state?
I think of communism, Marxism, and socialism when I see the a body of officials dictating to the public what they can believe, and whether or not they have a choice in their life - contingent on what they believe. 
