Will the DSM-5 ever rightfully promote religious beliefs to being delusions.?

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Religious beliefs are delusions even if God exists or if Jesus rose from the dead or even if miracles are possible and Atheists are wrong and we're going to your God's hell. Verificationists believe that questions like "Does God exist" or "is there life after death" are meaningless because they cannot be verified by our external senses either until you die or you would need to have an infallible understanding of the inner workings of the universe (Which seems philosophically impossible) . All proofs of God and Jesus's existence are intense biased psychological emotion based subjective human testimonies which cannot be replicated on demand by other skeptics unless they accept a bit of gullability (Why can't Christians supernaturally make me a believer by the laying of Hands if they have the power of Christ or why don't Mormons demand that God show himself on demand at one of their holy temples and I promise to be a Christian for all my life) Atheism is basically "I have not been convinced that there is a thing "out there" that cares about humans and wants a personal relationship with me")

Update:

Lili - Yeah the cavemen in the savannah in Africa would had to have had created some sort of explanation for seeing the milky way in the night sky and not having all the answers they wanted. So they invent God talking to them from the sky just like in the bible and through audible voices that were most likely just hallucinations.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Unlikely.  We've always given the religious a pass on the sort of beliefs that, in any other context, would get people committed to a psychiatric facility. We probably always will.

In fact, socio- and evolutionary biologists and neuroscientists think we might actually be hardwired for religious belief, because it would have offered our ancient ancestors some survival advantages.  That hardwiring may be loosening but very slowly, and it may always exist to some extent, so psychiatrists are unlikely to pathologize it.

Edit: I'm actually talking about community and mutual aid.

Publius · Answer

Nope.  If it does, it will do so incorrectly, Einstein.

Every year millions experience God for themselves.  You should, too.  It's the logical thing to do.  Don't bother moving the goalposts.  It's more evidence than you have to shore up your fantasy that there is no God.

User · Answer

Well...no, since it's the DSM V.

That's like asking if the Clementine Vulgate (16th c.) will ever take into account the Dead Sea Scrolls (discovered 20th c.)

No, correction...

That's like asking if the Clementine Vulgate (16th c.) will ever take into account Dr. Seuss (20th c.)

? · Answer

So, you figure getting religious belief into the DSM is your key to destroying freedom of religion? I think you might be in the DSM5.

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Will the DSM-5 ever rightfully promote religious beliefs to being delusions.?

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