COMMENTS:
Voted : No, fundies are not mentally ill.
Not mentally ill, just overly exposed to collective hysteria.
No, but many appear to be suffering from an extreme affinity for Authoritarianism, which manifests itself as fundamentalist religion.
I don't think a blanket generalization is warranted. BTW Why don't you log in cathexis?
Voted : Yes, fundies are mentally ill.
- and it's a self-induced hypnosis of sorts, a voluntarily-self-induced thing.
"Looking for God" helps one to get bent seriously-outa-shape..to the point of becoming dangerous to your community and to the planet.
And again I say, religions are best taken in small doses, very small doses.
They are nothing to be taken too terribly seriously,
for it's all a Wishful-Thinking headgame hobby thing, nothing more.
Voted : No, fundies are not mentally ill.
I think its more of a cultural problem than a mental one.
Voted : No, fundies are not mentally ill.
I would be tempted to call it severe brain washing.
When something is told to you so many times it becomes true in your own mind, within a marriage it would be called mental abuse, I speak from experience.
Voted : No, fundies are not mentally ill.
Which makes it all the more sad, IMO.
in the technical sense, you could call me a religious fundamentalist, because i reduce religions down to their basics and junk with the waste.
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