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Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

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2. if Allah told her to commit the crime...

Reply to AlbertCat (Original post)

Wed Mar 2, 2016, 12:57 PM

Mar 2016

she is certainly suffering from mental illness.

But why are so many insane people extremely religious? Good question. The filters are all gone. One wonders, if there were no religion around, how would these insane people be acting? Just crazy?

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Religion..ugh! [View all] AlbertCat Mar 2016 OP

It's the perfect framework. trotsky Mar 2016 #1

The real harm from religion is that it can act as an ... NeoGreen Mar 2016 #4

It does seem to throw up less red flags for folks temporary311 Mar 2016 #5

if Allah told her to commit the crime... RussBLib Mar 2016 #2

Religion only provides a convenient framework to hang all the voices and other hallucinations on Warpy Mar 2016 #3

I agree with the theists. She's mentally ill. Iggo Mar 2016 #6

nothing makes you quite as ugly as religion es35 Mar 2016 #7