[FairfieldLife] Re: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/ http://tinyurl.com/d64krlk People who believe in an angry, punishing God are much more likely to suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, a scientific study published in the April edition of Journal of Religion Health finds. The study, conducted by Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Psychology Professor Nava Silton, used data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey of US Adults to examine the links between beliefs and anxiety disorders like social dysfunction, paranoia, obsession and compulsion. So this means the writers of the Tanakh and the versions of the Christian Old Testament were mentally ill?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/ http://tinyurl.com/d64krlk People who believe in an angry, punishing God are much more likely to suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, a scientific study published in the April edition of Journal of Religion Health finds. The study, conducted by Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Psychology Professor Nava Silton, used data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey of US Adults to examine the links between beliefs and anxiety disorders like social dysfunction, paranoia, obsession and compulsion. So this means the writers of the Tanakh and the versions of the Christian Old Testament were mentally ill? Well, Job certainly qualifies as depressed, and Abraham was ready to kill his son because he heard voices in his head. You do the math.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses
Why is this news to anyone? I mean, we're talking about people who not *only* believe that there's this Big Father Figure In The Sky who runs everything, but that he's *pissed off at them* because they don't live the way he wants them to. What an *incredibly* primitive and low-vibe belief system. If there is a God who is actually pissed off at His creations because they don't live the way he wanted them to, 1) it's His fuckin' fault for doing such a shitty job creating them, and 2) it's even more His fault for creating them and then never giving them a User's Manual for what he wanted them to do. He relied on dumbass humans to do that for Him, based on their own ignorance and prejudices. Believing in such a being just *has* to make one crazy! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: Study: Belief in an angry God associated with variety of mental illnesses http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/study-belief-in-an-angry-god-associated-with-variety-of-mental-illnesses/ http://tinyurl.com/d64krlk People who believe in an angry, punishing God are much more likely to suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, a scientific study published in the April edition of Journal of Religion Health finds. The study, conducted by Marymount Manhattan College Assistant Psychology Professor Nava Silton, used data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey of US Adults to examine the links between beliefs and anxiety disorders like social dysfunction, paranoia, obsession and compulsion.
