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Psychology could offer an explanation but it would require a completely new approach, its currently illegal to bring the creator into the therapy.
They can only delve into the easy problem, things we are wired for.
It's not illegal, it's just not necessarily scientific.
Psychology could offer an explanation but it would require a completely new approach, its currently illegal to bring the creator into the therapy.
They can only delve into the easy problem, things we are wired for.
The other side, or the hard problem, which entails the non physical mind or spiritual aspect of mentality ,
is ignored as if it doesnt exist.
But thats where the only path to recovery from spiritual disease can be found.
People have spiritual experiences and they don't seem to be the result of psychological disorder or peer pressure necessarily, so I don't think psychology can fully explain them. It is true there are things such as openness to experience that can predispose people to having spiritual experiences but this in itself is not a mental disorder and is quite normal.
Except psychology does not deal with just psychological disorder or peer pressure, it also deals with normal behavior. But if I understand what you appear to imply, you are correct, there is no single root of religious belief and spiritual experience, they are products of different but normal behavior.
Teleological thinking, cognitive bias, cultural and parental influences, all normal effects we use in our every day life, as well as spiritually.
They may also be genuine, although I have seen no good evidence for me to believe this.
It only starts to become a mental disorder when it makes you ignore clear evidence that you are wrong, when you have to lie to yourself to feed a delusional belief.
Not entirely. There's a reason it seems like gibberish to you -- and that's because God has not granted you faith.
But don't confuse that with the holy laughter, charismaniacs that sit around and giggle as if drunk. That's nonsense. There is zero support for that in the Bible.
Hey BFun. Why does your god pick and choose who to give faith to?
Im just a bit more fussy about miracles is all.
I did master the miracle of turning wine into water.
Isn’t wine 80% water?
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