Tag: mental health

Discussion with another Eastern orthodox Christian

Is religious belief sufficient reason to dismiss the experiences and validity of others?

Meet Joshua. He’s an Eastern Orthodox Christian with some interesting ideas. I had high hopes for this one although it didn’t turn out quite as I’d expected. What’s your opinion?

Joshua was very keen to prevent me from actually making my points, even when he’d asked specific questions. However I have several videos that will explain what I meant. They’re linked below…

Regarding human irrationality and religion
https://youtu.be/MJewkA6EMkU?si=2wPqfubO5FYhni5X

Regarding my trans son
https://youtu.be/iH9a6bsh_to?si=nr0_Xk5SeosHLJy6

Regarding Numbers 31
https://youtu.be/Qo37EBgFmmc?si=1XZNDAPUqhEPBFIn

Regarding God’s genocide
https://youtu.be/QdRPv_ya3S4?si=-454QDwFX2-QWOMZ

Regarding Christian morality
https://youtu.be/uGGETu8FfXc?si=nwQit10QErxjTkcB

No moral morality

You invalidate humanity, Personify hypocrisy,
As hymn by hymn, And prayer by prayer,
You smugly sit, In your armchair,
While others do the work you claim,
Can only happen in your Jesus’ name.
Have you no shame?

You say I can’t be moral without God, ‘Cause I don’t pray.

Wittering about “Where the saints have trod”, Or so you say.

Denying my compassion, Like it’s going out of fashion,

You invalidate humanity, Personify hypocrisy,

As hymn by hymn, And prayer by prayer,

You smugly sit, In your armchair,

While others do the work you claim,

Can only happen in your Jesus’ name.

Have you no shame?

Religion is not mental disorder!

Asserting that religion is mental illness is unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant!

I recently found myself talking to another atheist online.

This person began by asserting that religious belief is a mental illness. In fairness to him he did climb down from that very generalised position after a while but I know that many others are just as dismissive of their fellow men and women. Many theists think the same of all atheists and that’s just as silly.

In this video though my focus is on the general irrationality of all humans and how that is factored into the diagnostic process. My view is that all such assertions are unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant.

What do you think?

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I’m on ‘The Unshaw podcast’!

My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw

The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.

Visit the Unshaw podcast and have a listen. Go on … you know you want to!