Christianity Is A Mental Disorder

[psybormonk]

Hiya Googlites! I heard Bill Maher once mention that he thought all religion was a mental disorder. I'm sure he meant the major religions and not our beloved Googlism. One thing is certain... The Myth-based religions of the world are dangerous! I don't think there is to many ways where a Googlist could do physical harm. That is unless someone gets too close to our desk and we spill our Starbucks on them.... Ouch!

Whatya thank?

[mapanggulo]

Well I'd definately classify the "In your face, bible thumbers" and "Extreme Islamics" as mentally deranged and slightly out of balance with their own religion. Religious Extremeism is a mental disorder IMO.

[Jillamanda]

They've worked out what the problem is:

Gene breakthrough

GENEVA - In what’s being hailed as a biotech breakthrough, gay scientists claim to have isolated the Christian gene.

Gay scientists the world over are stunned by the new Christian gene finding.

According to reports, homosexual geneticists have spent years attempting to isolate the gene that renders people Christian. As members of the Pink Tiger Research Institute, they’re hoping to isolate the cause of Christianity altogether within the next decade.

Dr Gary Delaney claims gay scientists have already prevented rats from being born Christian. “And hopefully,” says Dr Delaney, “humans will follow.”

Many Christians object to the findings, claiming their belief is not genetically determined.

Mr Ben Heppell, a. practising Christian says, “Look, Christianity is a lifestyle choice. It’s perfectly natural.”

But Pink Tiger claims the controversial religion is part of people’s DNA they say, Christianity can be inherited, just like baldness.

“The way they dress, the way they talk, they way they exhibit themselves in public” explains Dr Delaney. “We now know that being Christian is actually not their fault.”

Scientists say that until a method is found to remove the Christian gene, gay scientists will continue counselling local Christians to make positive changes to their lifestyle and values.

Parents of Christians, like Anne and Chris Mills, welcome the news with relief.

“We always worried that if we’d done something different, our child would not have ended up a Christian” says Mrs Mills. “But now we know he didn’t have a choice.”

Now, thanks to the work of Pink Tiger, there is a choice, which is good for Christians everywhere.

http://www.abc.net.au/cnnnn/news/s720688.htm

:D

[Googler]

Lol Jill how do you find these things?

[Jillamanda]

That particular one was on an Aussie comedy show a couple of years ago, and I've never forgotten it.....so...I just typed 'christianity gene' into Google and there it was.

:D

[Alice Shade]

Noce one.

As for religions being disorders... I`ll state my opinion.

As far as I myself persieve it, religions could be roughly divided into two parts.

1) Religions, which imply, that everyone shapes their own future, and their god changes with them.

2) Religions, which imply, that everyone was predestined by the god to perform some duty.

Googlism, obviously, is a blatant example of first case.

Christianity - just as obviously, second case.

In my opinion, second-type religions exist as a way of stress-relief. It is, apparently, much easier to say "I`ve done it by the will of God (Allah, Ahuramazda, Krishna, whatever)!", then take responcibility for your decisions.
To be honest, it IS quite a powerful tool of crowd-control. Imagine a pope saying - "I`ve decided to invade Palestina, because I need gold, and I need to cull down on overzealous knights." He`d be torn apart by crowd. Now compare with - "It`s God`s will to liberate the holy relics from the lands of unholy barbarians!" Feel the difference? Nevermind, that holy relics were never really recovered.

[Googler]

Noce one.

As for religions being disorders... I`ll state my opinion.

As far as I myself persieve it, religions could be roughly divided into two parts.

1) Religions, which imply, that everyone shapes their own future, and their god changes with them.

2) Religions, which imply, that everyone was predestined by the god to perform some duty.

Googlism, obviously, is a blatant example of first case.

Christianity - just as obviously, second case.

In my opinion, second-type religions exist as a way of stress-relief. It is, apparently, much easier to say "I`ve done it by the will of God (Allah, Ahuramazda, Krishna, whatever)!", then take responcibility for your decisions.
To be honest, it IS quite a powerful tool of crowd-control. Imagine a pope saying - "I`ve decided to invade Palestina, because I need gold, and I need to cull down on overzealous knights." He`d be torn apart by crowd. Now compare with - "It`s God`s will to liberate the holy relics from the lands of unholy barbarians!" Feel the difference? Nevermind, that holy relics were never really recovered.

Again, I agree with Googlism not being so strict it gives people a chance to relax, breaking a commandment in Christianity means you're going to hell, in Googlism the commandments are more suggestions and breaking one doesn't have any real consequences.

[acachinero]

I'd just like to pipe in quickly:

I suppose using the term Christianity in a broad sense of the word is very 'American' (one way to put it). However, I would like to make one or two distinctions:

I'm a fairly non-practicing Eastern Orthodox Rite Christian. I don't go to Church, we don't have a central authority to tell us infallibly what to do (this is a characteristic of Orthodox Christianity, there is no Pope), etc.

However, I do engage in celebration on certain important days (we use the Julian calendar, so New Year is on the 13th of January Gregorian and Christmas is 6th January Gregorian, for example) such as Saint Nicholas. I have been educated in very secular values, but I also have been educated in the Orthodox Christian family tradition.

And more in matter of opinion, the liturgical music we listen to in the Church (the few times I do go) has very mystical and warm qualities - it is hard to argue they do not uplift the spirit.

So I just wanted to give a quick heads up to the fellow members of the CoG in a respectful manner.

I value freedom of speech very highly. But seeing the sentence 'Christianity is a mental disorder' is a bit raw to me because:

1.- It makes an unquestionable affirmation

2.- It groups up 'Christians' from over the globe and puts them in the same bag.

Perhaps there are many so-called 'Christians' in the North America who are more fundamental than in Europe. But for a start, there are many people in, say, Orthodox and Protestant Europe who would take such a statement badly (myself included) because of the reasons I outlined above.

Just a heads up :)

[Fallen Hero]

They've worked out what the problem is:

Gene breakthrough

GENEVA - In what’s being hailed as a biotech breakthrough, gay scientists claim to have isolated the Christian gene.

Gay scientists the world over are stunned by the new Christian gene finding.

According to reports, homosexual geneticists have spent years attempting to isolate the gene that renders people Christian. As members of the Pink Tiger Research Institute, they’re hoping to isolate the cause of Christianity altogether within the next decade.

Dr Gary Delaney claims gay scientists have already prevented rats from being born Christian. “And hopefully,” says Dr Delaney, “humans will follow.”

Many Christians object to the findings, claiming their belief is not genetically determined.

Mr Ben Heppell, a. practising Christian says, “Look, Christianity is a lifestyle choice. It’s perfectly natural.”

But Pink Tiger claims the controversial religion is part of people’s DNA they say, Christianity can be inherited, just like baldness.

“The way they dress, the way they talk, they way they exhibit themselves in public” explains Dr Delaney. “We now know that being Christian is actually not their fault.”

Scientists say that until a method is found to remove the Christian gene, gay scientists will continue counselling local Christians to make positive changes to their lifestyle and values.

Parents of Christians, like Anne and Chris Mills, welcome the news with relief.

“We always worried that if we’d done something different, our child would not have ended up a Christian” says Mrs Mills. “But now we know he didn’t have a choice.”

Now, thanks to the work of Pink Tiger, there is a choice, which is good for Christians everywhere.

http://www.abc.net.au/cnnnn/news/s720688.htm

:D

If only they would understand what it feels like from that.

[Alice Shade]

Orthodoxal church stands alone in this.

I hardly consider Orthodoxes to be christians. For me, they are "pravoslavniye" (rightfaithed, in rough translation.)
While I do not share Orthodox beliefs, so far THAT church didn`t caused me any trouble. They do not mind my existance, and I don`t mind theirs.

Of course, there is a fair amount of jerks in any religion, but so far, Christians had been the most annoyingly-irritating.

[acachinero]

For me, they are "pravoslavniye" (rightfaithed, in rough translation.)

It took for you to say that for me to look at your avatar and see you're Ukranian. I myself am from the Serbia :)

EDIT: Point being, the influence of the CoG is far-reaching. Mwuhahaha.