Stop calling religion a mental illness!

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Religious belief is NOT Mental illness, the explicit weaponized conflation of the 2 is incredibly frustrating.

I lay out my refutation of those claims in this video, but I encourage you to please go through the links below and start your own journey towards understanding this position

Resources:


Definitions of Mental illness:

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-f...

Canadian Mental Health Association:

https://toronto.cmha.ca/understanding...

What is a Mental/Psychiatric Disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Web MD Delusions:

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/d...

Understanding Delusions paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Severe mental illness across cultures

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

DSM-V

https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatri...

ICD-11

https://icd.who.int/en

Demographics of Religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...

Seeing and believing: perception, belief formation and the divided mind

https://link.springer.com/article/10....

EXPLORING THE NEED FOR A SHARED COGNITIVE MAP

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...

Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...


Recovering from Religion: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.or...
The Clergy Project: http://clergyproject.org/
Secular Therapy: https://www.seculartherapy.org/
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As always a HUGE thank you to Paul from Paulogia!

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