Since the insult has to cause damage to the individual's reputation, calling anon a dumbass doesn't constitute libel/slander. It actually elevates anon's status from Douchebag, and thus constitutes a minor compliment.

Actually, I was just looking for a reason to back-up something you had to say, Scat. Been a while; keep up the good work, Madame Chief-of-Staff ;)

Guess you're off the hook, Scat.

Anon, I do not know if you are aware that there are several peer-reviewed papers and researched articles from the medical community which deal with religion as a psychosis. I don't have much time to research for you, but here's a start:

"Spiritual Experience or Religious Psychosis", P. Chadwick, Birkbeck College Faculty, University of London (26 Apr 2000)
"Educating Sufferers of Religous Psychosis", B. Bamber, Mental Health Nursing (Nov 2003)
"Frequency and severity of religious delusions in Christian patients with psychosis", Medline (1998)
"Serial Killers: Albert Fish", University of Florida, H. Rawlins (2005)
"Religious experiences in epileptic patients with a focus on ictus-related episodes", Medline(1996)

I'm sure you can find more information on the internet. Like I said, this was a quick search.

Before we go any further, would you please list your credentials?

I personally don't always agree with Cal. However, I am not going to silence him because you disagree with his posts. The day Cal starts to claim that he is a medical doctor is the day that I'll have a serious talk with him about it.

But you don't see that, do you? You could just look at it as his rant, and don't take it so personally.

Maybe TheJudge could fill you in on Cal. He went through much the same phase you're experiencing, albeit he went about it in a more professional manner.

anon, you are a cunt.
good day.

Um, okay. I say here now, forthrightly, that I agree that a person having religious belief is having psychosis. Since the Wikipedia describes psychosis as "a generic psychiatric term for a mental state in which thought and perception are severely impaired," then a person with religious beliefs most certainly fits the term.

Of course, there are varying degrees of religious psychosis, just as there are varying degrees of nonreligious psychosis. There are people who'se only impairment manifests with regards to their religious ideas; that is, they seem perfectly capable of functioning in any other area of life or reality, but they inexplicably suspend their rational faculty on matters of a spiritual nature.

And then there are the seething fundamentalists like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Fred Phelps, or Carico, who are schizophrenically psychotic in their religious belief; that is, they are unable to distinguish their religious fantasies from the rest of reality, and are therefore incapable of properly functioning with the rest of society.

Depends on your profession. Cunt might be a technical term for a gynecologist, but I'm not one, so I don't know.

I don't know; we'd have to take a poll to find out. But you've currently got two votes in the AYE category.

You're one to talk, you thread hi-jacking fuck up. Get out of my thread.

Edit: talking about anon

Well, you either bumped your head, are mentally dysfunctional, ingested some peganum harmala with amanita muscaria or simply are infected with severe Christ-psychosis. Remember, I'm NOT making references to posters. MANY neurologists ( again if you would BOTHER to read my links and get educated on the subject) see religous IRRATIONAL and ABSURD beliefs as a form of M.E.N.T.A.L I.L.L.N.E.S.S.
Hey, Gehirn Gestoert, read the books I suggested. Christians are not called Jesus Freaks, Retards, psychos, Bible thumpers and delusional cretins for nothing....Their Christ-psychosis INDUCED delusions are NO DIFFERENT to those of the schizophrenia or TLE sufferer. This is a FACT ( and not mind alone) ask any NEUROLOGISTS....if you aren't able to understand the medical terminology....Please get educated, so you do not keep confirming your ignorance and mental handicap in this forum. Here retard, LEARN by starting with these:
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/special_r.../anhedonia.htm

http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/July01/borna.htm

http://members.aol.com/wutsamada/phl347/kim3.html

http://members.aol.com/wutsamada/phl347/kim3.html

Here are common symptoms of Christianity and schizophrenia ( NO, I did not write this!!)

http://www.godisamyth.com/regs/ez/webdoc8.htm

Christian suffering a from of illness ( Again, not my work)

http://www.philosophy-religion.org/c.../suffering.htm

http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/cis/.../lecture1.html

http://www.jcnot4me.com/Items/Misc%2...evelations.htm

http://www.geocities.com/satanicus_2/GodHelmet.html

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?...ode_id=1313416

http://www.marxists.org/reference/su...ks/at/jung.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/577180.stm

http://www.aracnet.com/~kbuxton/memes.html

anon. I can see right through you. You were born into a Christianity infected family, having a brain genetically propense to this psychosis, you were not able to dismiss the Christ-psychosis induced fantasies for the delusions they were...so, the fact that someone is exposing Christianity for the schizophrenia type delusional beliefs inducing illness it is, BOTHERS you. Deep inside you know it is true!..this is the reason you are becoming so defensive and are in DENIAL of the TRUTH. It is obvious for if it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck and flies like a duck......you just have to LEARN to accept your neurological handicap. hey, some people are born short, some are born miopic, some with down's syndrome, some with tourettes, some with acromegalia, some with Morfan's syndrome ( " Some patients with the autoimmune-mediated disorder produce antibodies that bind to ion channels on the motor nerve fibers. This condition, when associated with confusion, hallucinations, and insomnia, is known as Morfan's syndrome. ') and many others. Religious BELIEFS induced DELUSIONS of invisible friends, occurrs also in MORFAN.
So, if the shoe fits wear it!!.....but do not tell me I'm the ONLY one that KNOWS religious beliefs are a form of NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER. The cause however, as many others, remains idiopathic.....:cool:

At this point, I would expect the resident psychiatrists and psychologists to chime in.

What, neuroscientists and doctorates of other cognitive fields don't count?

And you better look at your brain, get an MRI if possible...and first of all get EDUCATED in the neurological field. What is it to you if a 'poster' disagrees with me? is the poster a NEUROLOGISTS? that's what matters!..just READ the books I suggested and LOOK into the links..and please look at neurological institutes throughout the world, not only in the US.

Alas, even the brain can be STIMULATED and INDUCED to have "feelings of the supernatural" ( god) by simply stimulating its TEMPORAL LOBES...or were you born without them, and instead faith triggers?..:lol:

http://www.geocities.com/satanicus_2/GodHelmet.html

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/featu...030428god.html

even DRUGS can make the brain FEEL and SEE GOD....so, don't you think DISEASE can't? WHY?''

Here Learn about neurotheology.

http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuronewswk.htm

Again why don't you?..you are obviously the ignoramus here!, who has not even LOOK into the posts I refered to, written by ACREDITED NEUROLOGISTS!...Why? are you afraid I'd be correct and you WRONG?

Please get educated for we can see right through you...and you shine for you ignorance. Cut and pasting non sequiturs articles is indicative of BS ignorance. You can not fool us. Remember, we are mentally healthy folks, aka atheists, which KNOW what we are talking about and can, unlike you, BACK up our comments. So far, you have NOT comment on my links, if you had bother to see them you'd realize how wrong you are....:cool:

We, unlike you, can tell the difference betwen Christ-psychosis induced delusions and reality. That's the problem and the reason you do not make sense, you can not!..take some ziprasidone, or tegretol, it may help..:lol:

Did you bump your head? it would be more interesting if YOU get educate and know what the sciences NEUROLOGY or PSYCHIATRY are. Read the books, All of this is NOT about me, but your disabling Christ-psychosis. REad the links!! Gehirn gestoert..

I've already told anon to shut her pile hole. What else do you want?

Manics who believe in God often experience 'personal communication' with their particular God. Similar traits are seen with schizophrenics (child and adult onset for both disorders). In these cases, the underlying beliefs of the affected are made manifest by their hallucinations. These are often self feeding, and increase with time.

As for 'regular' theism, I don't consider it to be a psychological disorder (likewise, there is now 'theism' criteria on the DSM-IV-TR), but rather a result of the normal socialization process. When everyone around you believes X, you will probably end up believing X as well. With large numbers of people saying one thing, people tend to nod in compliance, even when they believe it's wrong (and even to the point of beleiving it's right). For example, you can convince a person that two lines of unequal (clearly) length (about 75 vs 100) are actually equal. Even when later questioned individually, they will maintain that the lines are the same length.