Religious fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’

[Locutus]

that can be ‘cured’



A leading neurologist at the University of Oxford said this week that recent developments meant that science may one day be able to identify religious fundamentalism as a “mental illness” and a cure it.
During a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday, Kathleen Taylor was asked what positive developments she anticipated in neuroscience in the next 60 years.

“One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated,” she explained, according to The Times of London. “Somebody who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology – we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.”


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Leading neuroscientist: Religious fundamentalism may be a ‘mental illness’ that can be ‘cured’ | The Raw Story


h/t Fark

 

[L Gilbert]

Genes contribute to religious inclination - life - 16 March 2005 - New Scientist

 

[WLDB]

Id say thats probably on par with people who say homosexuality can be "cured."

 

[Zipperfish]

Id say thats probably on par with people who say homosexuality can be "cured."

Nailed it.

Creepy lady.

 

[Colpy]

I think anyone that disagrees with me is obviously suffering from a mental illness, and needs to be committed for a strict regimen of treatment, including EST.

I'm sure they can be made well.

Just hook'em right up to 220.

Seriously, these people are bloody dangerous.

 

[Cliffy]

As much as I would like to believe religious fundamentalism is a mental illness, I'm afraid I find it hard to accept. I wonder if this is the same bunch trying to have pedophilia classified as a sexual orientation?

 

[gopher]

proof that fundamentalism is a mental illness:

... the sad part is, there's no cure except for a prolonged confinement in a mental institution

 

[damngrumpy]

People are dangerous to themselves and others around them. Fundamentalism is not
restricted to Muslims or Christians or any other religious groups. We have these groups
like environmentalists who are more religious than activists. Religion is a curious thing.
God can be whatever the group deems the chosen one to be. Anyone who does not
bow to it is in danger at the tipping point.
Fundamentalism is the pivot that often destroys a society and creates the ruins we find
in a future time. Someone will wonder where the hell we went as we just melted away.

 

[B00Mer]

proof that fundamentalism is a mental illness:

Guess Gopher I'll have to agree with you on this one.. Socialist Fundamentalism

 

[damngrumpy]

Socialist fundamentalism. Not good but it could never even come close to
the right wing religious fundamentalism. The Spanish Inquisition, the boys
of America on the pulpit preaching their nonsense and hate and it can't even
come close to the pictures of the folks you present. Stalin you missed Stalin.
Then of course the right wing National Socialism gave us Hitler. No Hitler
was now left wing he was right wing socialism.
The churches are every bit as sinister as the Stasi in East Germany during
the cold war.
No one has a monopoly on despots. And the other mistake was adding Obama
he is not a socialist, by Canadian standards he would be a conservative here.
there is an old saying goes something like this
When you set out to define others you often define yourself.
The problem with the right wing in America is their behaviour will keep them out
of office for a long time. Going after Obama, is not the way to go, after all Ms
Clinton is going to be the next President because all those minority urban voters
will make the pilgrimage to the polls again.

 

[gopher]

HIGHEST corporate profits since 1900.

That makes him the most corporatist president since McKinley. A fact lost on Obama haters and other far right delusionals.



But yes, right wing religious fundamentalism is a disease. Westboro Baptist church and the Tea Baggers prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.

 

[WLDB]

Guess Gopher I'll have to agree with you on this one.. Socialist Fundamentalism

Id agree that Che Guevara was a fundamentalist socialist. He was an interesting figure and I can understand how that happened to him, though I of course disagree with him and do not think he had a mental illness. Obama? If he's a fundamentalist socialist he isnt doing a very good job of showing it. Marx? Doubt it. If he was a fundamentalist socialist he wouldnt have sat around reading and writing all the time on someone else's dime. He would have been out there trying to put his ideas into practice. I have a feeling he would not be pleased with what a lot of people did with his ideas.

 

[gopher]

Obama? If he's a fundamentalist socialist he isnt doing a very good job of showing it.

And when the forum delusional right wingers are challenged to prove it they just keep repeating the same old shït without proving anything.



You know the

routine that they ascribe to everybody else ...