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Brainstormy

(2,489 posts)
Sun Jul 26, 2015, 11:21 AM Jul 2015

The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state — and Scalia from his mind

From Salon

The headline on the News Nerd was almost too good to be true: “American Psychological Association to Classify Belief in God As a Mental Illness.” A study, the story beneath it read, had led the APA to conclude that “a strong and passionate belief in a deity or higher power, to the point where it impairs one’s ability to make conscientious decisions about common sense matters, will now be classified as a mental illness.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/26/the_religious_have_gone_insane_the_separation_of_church_and_state_and_scalia_from_his_mind/


GREAT article. worth the full read.

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The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state — and Scalia from his mind (Original Post) Brainstormy Jul 2015 OP
It used to be Warpy Jul 2015 #1
No nut like a religious nut Major Nikon Jul 2015 #3
the News Nerd is a satire site RussBLib Jul 2015 #2

Warpy

(113,839 posts)
1. It used to be
Sun Jul 26, 2015, 01:47 PM
Jul 2015

back in the bad old days of state mental hospitals, that anyone getting messages from god was sent to the crazy house for some medication and a rest to stop the voices and disabuse one of the idea that those voices were anything but hallucination.

First thing I learned when I worked there was that there's no crazy like god crazy.

Now the Republicans put them into high office.

Scalia's been showing signs of organic brain syndrome for a decade. He's not going to get any better. He's likely to get far worse. The sad thing is how few people will notice.

RussBLib

(10,003 posts)
2. the News Nerd is a satire site
Sun Jul 26, 2015, 03:27 PM
Jul 2015

BUT the items in that story ring true nonetheless

A curious mix of satire and reality

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