I’m not even a Christian and this is a genuinely rubbish take, go and look up William Wilberforce for example.
Edit: I feel that I really have to stress what I thought was obvious, the notion that every human being from behavioural modernity to the Enlightenment was mentally ill is so foolish on the face of it that it isn’t worth even entertaining even for the sake of argument.
Yes, they were. I am mentally ill too, I am depressed, I am anxious, we all have some degree of what one generation ago was a mental illness and now isn’t.
Mental illness doesn’t mean dysfunctional or crazy, but if you have a heart surgeon that’s also a Flat Earther, what do you call that?
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Historical fact. Religion is a mental illness. The end.
I’m not even a Christian and this is a genuinely rubbish take, go and look up William Wilberforce for example.
Edit: I feel that I really have to stress what I thought was obvious, the notion that every human being from behavioural modernity to the Enlightenment was mentally ill is so foolish on the face of it that it isn’t worth even entertaining even for the sake of argument.
Yes, they were. I am mentally ill too, I am depressed, I am anxious, we all have some degree of what one generation ago was a mental illness and now isn’t.
Mental illness doesn’t mean dysfunctional or crazy, but if you have a heart surgeon that’s also a Flat Earther, what do you call that?
As long as the surgeon is not in charge of my geographic or topographic needs, I’m golden.
Better a flat earther than a Capitalist heart surgeon who writes you a $500000 bill Because you did not have insurance.
That’s nice but that wasn’t the question.
The flat earther believes the earth is flat. It does not affect me.
The capitalist believes he should scrooge as much money as possible.
It doesn’t take mental illness to believe untrue things.
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I’m sure your specific flavor of religion is the correct one. Hang in there!
Brains exist. Reddit exists.
Your god(s), not so much.
Capitalism does not exist.
Some reddit atheist, I dunno
Karl “Religion is the root of all evil” Marx