Thursday, October 28, 2010

Good question

From ERtards:

Posted by randompawses at 4:40 PM

5 comments:

Jean said...

ha!...that is a question that deserves an answer. Wonder what they said.

d:-)

10/28/2010 5:53 PM
randompawses said...

Wish I knew; the site didn't say. I've always kind of wondered about that dichotomy myself. There can be an awfully fine line between being religious and being psychotic, and which side of it a person's on depends on one's own beliefs and who/what they claim they're talking to. If it's god, they're religious; if it's a different invisible being, they're psychotic. Go figure. Neither is provable as far as science is concerned.

And no, I'm not saying that if a person's religious that automatically means they're mentally disturbed. I am saying that the most mentally disturbed people I've encountered in my life have also been the most religious. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but.... shrug

10/28/2010 8:19 PM
randompawses said...

Lest people decide I'm bashing people of faith simply because they're religious:

Example 1) The schoolmate who told me she WOULD take me down to the creek and either baptize or drown me - my choice.

Example 2) The former friend who, when her car wouldn't start, claimed she was being personally attacked by Satan. The fact that she drove an old, poorly maintained car with on old battery, and that it was the dead of winter couldn't have had anything to do with it...?

Example 3) The former friend who underwent some sort of "transformative event" on a Walk to Emmaus and informed me quite calmly that unless I was willing to listen to what he had to say about Jesus, his religion WOULD REQUIRE him to kill me.

Example 4) The overly religious great aunt who was, in the legal sense, certifiably insane and was only released from the mental hospital after she was too old (they thought) to be a physical threat to anyone. Even at that advanced age, she cornered me, grabbed my hand hard enough to BEND THE RING ON MY FINGER and wouldn't let go while she tried to "save my soul".

I'm not making any of these up. I wish I were, because I could've happily lived my life without being exposed to this, but they all happened exactly as portrayed.

10/28/2010 10:14 PM
Jean said...

Crikey.
I can't match any of those.
Even though I was raised Byzantine Catholic, I just could not accept the mystery and blind faith of religion. Many have suggested/stated that my emotional ups and downs are punishment for my non-acceptance.
Ha. I don't accept that, either. I've even been told that I should go to church to find a good husband. (Be a hypocrite?) Like all people who go to church are good. Geez.

Religion is about control. I balk at control.

10/30/2010 10:58 AM
randompawses said...

I just found an interesting piece on the difference between psychosis and seeing spirits, if you're interested:

http://everyoneneedstherapy.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_everyoneneedstherapy_archive.html#115440030822026861

11/01/2010 2:29 PM

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