Article on Atheism as a Mental Illness

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abuse of the term mental illness!


I know Richard Dawkins started it, which makes him wrong in his use of the word delusion as well.
 
I ask them to give me a single example of anything, outside of what they call nature, that came into being without intelligent direction. Of course, they can not. Everything manufactured by man required intelligent direction, right? Of course.
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This is some of the finest circular logic I've seen outside the Conspiracy Theories sub-forum.

(Of course, bwinwright posts there too. Guess what his position is.)

Dave
 
OK, wow. I stopped the snark for a moment to read that, and...yeah, bwinwright has got to be in middle school or something. That read like an 8th-grade book report.
 
I ask them to give me a single example of anything, outside of what they call nature, that came into being without intelligent direction.
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This article. What do I win?
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
As I have said in the past, there is circumstantial evidence that Mr "bwinwright" is actually John P Boatwright:

http://www.internationalskeptics.co...hp?p=4074321&highlight=boatwright#post4074321

who has trolled Usenet for decades.

If you do a search in Google Groups for him, you will see that in thousands of postings he has learned nothing about anything that has a basis in reality.


IMHO YMMV & etc. ;)
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Ah, he's the Boatwright mentioned in example 22 here?

http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm
 
Ixion said:
Well, I was surfing the internet (as I happen to do quite a bit), and noticed an article that caught my attention. The title of the article is "Atheism is a Mental Illness, a cry for attention". I noticed that the author is bwinwright, who posts here a bit, and admits as such in the article.

Atheism is a Mental Illness

His premise is (paraphrasing): atheists are protesting organised religion. They cannot possibly deny that an intelligent being created the universe. Order requires an intelligent being.

He never really addresses how he came to the conclusion that being an atheist infers that one must have a mental illness. The article revolves around a big straw man to support his beliefs as well. Too bad. Maybe someone else has another take on it.
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I'm raised potestant and am a sufi of sorts, thus a non-atheistics and I have plenty of issues with organized religion myself.

Faith is faith

organized religion is about control and indoctrination.
 
MG1962 said:
Yup - and the people being poked find a stick and poke back, and the whole thing just trundles along

Even as a thesist I wonder how many athiests we are actually responsible for creating by this behaviour
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Probably not quite as many as are people simply driven away from any form of organized religion or "fellowship of believers."

There seems to be not quite as much correlation between Atheism and insanity as there is between Religionism and insanity. My guess is that most of the "Voices" religionists hear are those originating in their own schizophrenic heads.

Of course, I am no expert on mental health issues.
 
LostAngeles said:
I hadn't! I just never took note of the name!

Post and runner? PFFT. **** 'em. Let us know when you stick around for a debate, bwinright.
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Debate? No. bwinwright's entire argument, analysis, riposte and final thoughts are contained in the few paragraphs he wrote in that OP; there is nothing in the 10x words added on in response to others that explains or further extends his argument. It's all there, all you'll ever get. It's not a debate, it's simply his opinion. As he says in the last paragraph, "all you have to do is stick to your guns". He does do that.

And that's it. He's right, everyone else who disagrees is mentally ill and needs condescension, not argument, god tells him so and there is no point in carrying on except to allow him to believe that he's "hit a nerve". I think I responded to his last thread here, but I don't think I'll do it again.
 
mikeyx said:
thou shalt no bear false what?
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It has been argued that this applies only to fellow believers, and not to the "unsaved" like Atheists, Jews, Muslims, et cetera. Thus, many Christians seem to feel that the Commandments do not apply when dealing with non-Christians. This also seems especially evident in inter-denominational relationships, where (for example) some Muslims and Roman Catholics display no remorse for openly insulting Reformists.

This does little to bring people into the Church, and even drives away those who don't agree with 100% of Church doctrine.
 
CaptainManacles said:
article? Rambling idiot rambles on the internet, posts it on a site with no editorial oversight. Woopity do.
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I, as a generalization, refer to posts on the internet which are presented as a singular point of view on a subject as an article. In this case, my use of the term was probably misleading.
 
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