I often find that I come from a different direction than most of the atheists I speak to coz religion was not comforting or reassuring 4 me.
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@BarryJM_Guitar This is my personal account of relig OCD but it also shows effects of taking Xtianity literally. http://helensatheistblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/a-personal-account-of-religious-ocd-and.html … -
Reading now, seems like you went through a very difficult time with this.
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@BarryJM_Guitar Yes but I overcame OCD. Well now. Left me with both concerns abt religion & ppl taking on mental illnesses as identity! -
I worry abt ppl who self-diagnose mental illness & then glamorise it & wallow in it & make it who they are.
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I did correctly guess someone had NPD once, but was just luck. A persons conditions are not easy to determine
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I can see them too coz I've read so much & worked with them but easy to self-diagnose normal emotions as mental illness.
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@BarryJM_Guitar Mood & anxiety diagnosed as disorders when impacting lif so relates closely to how much a person thinks they shld cope with
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I think teachings of hell are designed to cause a fear response, its so sinister really lol "do what the teachings say or hell"
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But ppl also believed them. Its innate to us to want justice & think life must be fair. Protest unfairness in random things.
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As Richard Dawkins pointed out, lifelong atheists will say 'Its so unfair' when a child gets cancer & dictator dies at 90.
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@BarryJM_Guitar I don't buy claim that religions deliberately invented to control ppl. We do it to ourselves & then put ppl in charge of it -
Yeah its not something I can prove, just seems like an efficient way to control a lot of people in ways
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