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Should Christians be classed insane. If just 1 person believed what they do, they would be. Just because more believe doesn't make it sane?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Not at all. Insanity is quite different from religious belief, and while there actually are a LOT of similarities, theists are FAR more mild in their behaviors than people who are truly insane.

    That said, these elaborate mythologies with good guys and bad guys and all the other nonsense like possession really don't help with these people, as all it does is provide an architecture for their insanity. Instead of hearing voices and dismissing them as imaginary, which many people can do with practice, they think they're hearing demons, and start to panic, because their indoctrination has made them terrified of the imaginary, and in an unstable mind, the imaginary seems very real to them.

    Theists are not, and have never been the smartest group of people. You need only look at their mythologies and cult behaviors through an impartial lens to see this. As such, the herd mentality works on them FAR better than any threat of eternal torture would, at least in today's world.

    They feel safe believing because they're still under the false notion that they're the majority, when in reality, not one of them actually believe in the same god. Every single person has their own personal idea about what their god supports or hates or agrees with, and its gone far beyond just having different sects of thought in one religion. They're so fractured it's ridiculous, and they have literally no clue that everyone else does NOT share their same ideas. It's just one more example of the overarching delusion that supports their 'faith'.

    Source(s): Psych major
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Since Christians run the world in money power and numbers I'd say no!

    Any organization with such vast power has to be from god because he is the source of all authority!

    Read your Bible freind.

    People that are Christian are induced to do work and obey the law. I'd say that's pretty sane.

    Christians are induced to help their fellowman

    I'd say that's pretty sane.

    And more Christians activity go to medical and psychological services to voluntarily maintain health.

    I'd say that's pretty sane.

    Furthermore since a lot of mental and physical doctors lean towards science and technology

    And say Christians are more healthy and happy. I'd have to believe in the people who studied and have degrees.

    I'd say that's pretty sane!

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    If Jesus isn't alive and well then Christianity is a farce.

    Why should any of you find it absurd that God raises the dead? But even if someone was to rise from the dead you wouldn't believe.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It is odd to see adult people playing pretend, and cursing everyone else because they don't play pretend.

    Religion is bizarre to say the least. It is organized insanity, the clergy taking advantage of those already disadvantaged. So for most it is a little crazy. For clergy it is a big bit criminal, they are all frauds, every one of them.

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  • 5 years ago

    No one should be classified as insane. "Insane" is just an ad homeniem to insult those with thinking patterns not like our's

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I am proud to be an American and a Christian. Christianity offers us the best alternative to the warped notion that there is no right or wrong, just opinion. Atheism has some very bad connotations.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You can meditate in What The Apostle Paul wrote under inspiration:

    "For it is written: “I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject.” 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not get to know God through its wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing" (1 Corinthians 1:19-21. Bible).

    Source(s): Is it realistic to expect to find absolute truth from this Source?: http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101989253?q=ab... http://www.jw.org/en/
  • Ruth
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You're full of it atheist. There are billions of Christians world wide, and few smart atheists.

  • 5 years ago

    Better than degeneration as atheist practice daily. LGBT, Jews, or whatever elite establishment decides

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Their cult belief is legalized insanity - mental disconnection from reality.

    What is also still legal, sadly, is the child abuse they do to their kids at home. The brainwashing and fear-based "eternal torture and suffering" threats they imbibe to their children at young ages -- it is child abuse and mental terrorism. And sadly, as a society, we still allow christian cultists to do that to their kids.

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