Atheists: Do you think religious worship will be deemed a mental illness in the future?

Yes, it would be appropriate to classify religion as a mental illness. This will not happen any time soon unfortunately.

No.

It seems like people are being given more slack when it comes to mental illnesses these days. So, I doubt such a thing will ever happen. Besides, it is part of the Constitution that people have a right to practice religion. That means the Constitution would have to be amended in order to deem religion as a treatable illness.

Yes. I've answered this same question many times already. Look at the history of slavery. Slavery was considered okay until a majority of the world deemed it as a bad thing. A majority of the world has the mental illness of religion. Hopefully it will follow the same path as slavery as it is slavery of the mind.

there isn't any stable learn data of a correlation between bipolar ailment and "getting faith" interior the middle years. A bipolar ailment is an affective ailment (e.g., important temper swings) and isn't any longer frequently linked with a theory ailment or delusions till one happens to be experiencing a manic state or intense melancholy (even then no longer inevitably). those with schizophrenia, schizo-affective ailment, and a few of you greater intense character issues (e.g., schizoid, borderline, schizotypal) might have a theory ailment, delusions, and auditory hallucinations. each so often (yet no longer continuously), their idiosyncratic ideals have stable non secular institutions. the 1st "psychotic wreck" often happens interior the late youth to early 1920s. apparently, there's a physique of learn which exhibits a stable affiliation between psychological wellbeing and a feeling of spirituality or faith. the genuine DSM IV "acid-try" is with regard to the implications. Does it inhibit or compromise social/vocational/interpersonal functioning in some significant way? If no longer, it does not be seen pathological. In different words, there isn't any longer something inherently pathological with regard to the dazzling perception which you met an angel. the communicate with notwithstanding in case you and thousands and thousands of theistic "others" are deluding yourselves or no longer, will probably in no way be thoroughly settled. it can be a lot greater effective to concentration on your point of functioning and not be too caught up in labels like "bipolar" that's usually over clinically determined and shall we no longer go overboard with the assumption of "magical thinking". A perception in a vist from an angel isn't sufficient to qualify. (that is comming from an atheistic-leaning agnostic). Plus, all of us have some degree of magical thinking. stable success!

No, I think that people who claim to believe in literal virgin births, men who live in whales and talking snakes will just be seen in the same light as your cab driver or dry cleaner that says Elvis is still alive and working at Dairy Queen. They're not arrested or locked up, they are just quietly dismissed. And they don't make it onto the governing boards of major universities.

Hopefully not...that would be terrible. And that's ridiculous, believing in a God is not a mental illness, it's just wishful thinking.

You are greatly mistaken. Schizophrenia is a mental illness because the people with the condition are not able to function in society. They cannot take care of themselves and are actually harmful to themselves. People that believe in God/gods are capable of taking care of themselves and others and a lot of them are generous, and kind people.

Hopefully you won't be a doctor or a scientists some day...that kind of thinking, how you think/how you perceive religious people, is dangerous and ignorant.

Well, if a random hobo came up to you in the street and said "I'm the son of God, I was born of a virgin womb and I've come to save humanity!" You would think he was completely insane, but Christians believe just that. They figure; even if it's completely irrational - it must be true - because it's written down in an ancient, fallible book...the Bible. Yes, Religion is nothing short of mental illness.

“When one person suffers from delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from delusion it is called religion.” - Robert M Pirsig

Maybe in a 200 years from now perhaps. I think that most people are just willfully ignorant for comfort reasons

Yeah, it's like people are having a god delusion. Hey, that would make a cool book title!

Seriously, I think that will eventually be the case, but it will probably take a few more centuries, I'm guessing.

no it will not, because with much hope we will not need "Religion" in near future.

In God's sight, skin color makes no difference.

God does not stand behind the barriers of religion and cultur differences.

regards

JohnH