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Religion Is A Mental Illness by bomboyi(m): 7:25pm On Jul 17, 2017
Religion is a mental illness,neuroscientist says
Prof.Robert Sapolsky
A professor at Stanford University, Robert Sapolsky, has said that religion is a mental illness, and that the behaviours exhibited by ‘prophets’ in religious texts are diagnosable acts.


The self-described atheist, who is also a neuroendocrinologist, argues that religion is comparable to a shared schizophrenia.


Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

Sapolsky said he was raised in an Orthodox (Jewish) household.

“I was raised devoutly religious up until around age 13 or so. In my adolescent years, one of the defining actions in my life was breaking away from all religious belief whatsoever,” he boasts.

According to him, the parables and teachings of prophets — such as the stories of the construction of the world in seven days, virgin births and burning bushes — are stories constructed by “extremely formative, extremely schizotypals throughout history.”

Online portal, Mayo Clinic, describes people with ‘schizotypal personality disorder’ as those who are odd or eccentric and usually have few, if any, close relationships. “Schizotypals generally don’t understand how relationships form or the impact of their behaviour on others,” Mayo Clinic asserts.

Prof. Sapolsky argues that “religious rituals are a form of exhibiting obsessive-compulsive disorders;” and that “religious people are on a spectrum of mental illness.”
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/health/religion-is-a-mental-illness-neuroscientist-says/205884.html
Re: Religion Is A Mental Illness by 0b100100111: 7:39pm On Jul 17, 2017
Very True!

Bob Marley called it mental slavery!

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Re: Religion Is A Mental Illness by Aaronsrod: 8:24pm On Jul 17, 2017
Science people are crazy. They cannot even see the air that give them life yet they mock God.
Re: Religion Is A Mental Illness by orisa37: 8:32pm On Jul 17, 2017
No Prof. Sapolsky. Accept The Spirit as separate and distinct from the physical then you are save to Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.
Re: Religion Is A Mental Illness by bomboyi(m): 4:49am On Jul 18, 2017
A strong believe in what is not physical is = to Yaba left

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