Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religious Belief = Mental Illness: A More Venomous Response [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)but I will let it stand. I choose not to reveal my private identity so I can not 'prove' my professional status here. I can, however, correct your continued errors of thinking and portrayal of my posts in this reply.
I have not 'framed' the profession I have been in for over 25 years by stating that the profession does not view religion as psychopathology. It is not the majority position. It is not even a strong minority opinion at this time. I bluntly challenge you to find any support for your agenda & position that what I have stated is untrue. You may begin your research here http://www.apa.org/ and here http://www.psychiatry.org/. Please provide exact links in a reply in this thread. If I was a gambling man, I would make a lot on this bet.
Clinical practice is based on theoretical & academic psychology. If and when such a time comes, and I personally do not think it will, that theoretical and academic psychology decides that all religions are simply psychopathologies, then the relevant clinical manuals like the DSM and clinical organizations like the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association will update their criteria accordingly.
Do you even know what the term ignostic means? I would like an answer to that as you seem to misrepresent my position constantly based on a failure to understand the term and the context used.
It is quite apparent, even before reading a later reply that you were once a 'liberal Christian' that you have had a conversion experience from being Christian to being not Christian and an atheist. I admit that I suspected you were raised in a more literalistic and fundamentalistic religious upbringing and hence the conversion as probabilities are higher for that type of 'conversion' or enantiodromia. Recommending that you explore other more 'liberal', though I would not choose that term, theologians and authors was to show you and others reading this thread that there is a plethora of thought in Christian theology that is far and away from fundamentalism and literal beliefs in mythology as reality. I hardly presented them to you as 'authorities' as you so falsely assert.
I was never a believer. Period. But thanks for guessing wrongly based on your agenda and psychology.
You continue to ignore even my stated words on why I chose to post the APA article that I did. You continue to push your agenda despite the fact that the actual OP is now miles away from your subthreads which I might add continue to veer further and further into the ether.
The only person in this conversation between us misrepresenting their credentials, intelligence, and pushing an agenda is you. Your thinking is disorganized and all over the place. You ignore facts to push an agenda. You project all of this on to others. I could go on.
You have asked me for my credentials. What are yours? If you have a desire to remain private as do I, then please kindly refrain from any further 'calling outs' of me on these forums on such matters. Otherwise, please present your full name, your educational status (graduate student, post grad, etc.), and your educational institution and date of degree receipt.