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Originally Posted by Pie
Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, the Greek gods, und so weiter are all "myths" to me. Unprovable stories someone made up a long time ago. The only thing that seperates them is that some are more entertaining than others.
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Awesome. Mind if I complicate this even more?
How is it that hearing voices in your head is most often considered a mental illness, but
hearing god talk to you is not? If someone is depressed and
cuts themselves to feel better, we diagnose it as a clinical issue, but
we write off people whipping themselves to please Jesus as a basic aspect of a religious sect?
Yeah, I know mental disorders are grounded in deviation from accepted culture and defined as only an issue when detrimental to the individual, but that is a thin line.
The first time I saw people speaking in tongues first hand, I thought they were absolutely insane. After reading more about it, I stand by that opinion.