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Author Topic:   When is a belief system a Mental Disorder?
AdminOmni
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Message 4 of 252 (286654)
02-14-2006 7:12 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by Adminnemooseus
02-14-2006 5:02 PM


Perhaps we can take fundamentalists out of the crosshairs...
...by discussing
How Do We Distinguish Faith from Delusion?
or
When Does Personal Belief Become a Public Concern?
or something of that order. If the question begins by positing the notion that fundamentalists suffer from a mental disorder, even presented as a question, I think we will quickly descend into a flame war.
But if we can discuss how to determine whether a personal belief crosses the Rubicon into a personal delusion/pathology and/or a public concern, maybe we can discuss general criteria before applying them to specific cases.

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AdminOmni
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Message 6 of 252 (286664)
02-14-2006 7:33 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by SuperNintendo Chalmers
02-14-2006 7:17 PM


Re: Perhaps we can take fundamentalists out of the crosshairs...
Having offered my input, I would prefer to defer to Moose.

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