Worshipper rips out both eyes in Mass with his BARE HANDS

[DavidL]

58. Oh, PLEEZE, Michele Bachmann's dear hubby must have

escaped your purview, of the "many reputable Christian counselors", including, at last count, for the 1900's alone, over 1000 priests, worldwide, in the Roman Catholic church, found to have engaged in pederasty. Their tens of thousands victims enjoy such wonderful mental health.

The agenda here, dear poster, is to point out the utter hypocrisy of claiming that religion has anything at all to do with SOUND mental health, or that it has any power whatsoever over people who are afflicted with one mental illness or another. Be it psychosis, hearing and seeing things, (THAT one keeps getting reflected in the literature over thousands of years), or simply the pederasty that the institution of un-natural yet long and historically maintained male-dominance and forced celibacy over many hundreds of years invites.

Two men open fire on a 14 year old girl in Pakistan last week, claiming their religion forbids women from eating the fruit of knowledge.
Yet another priest in St Louis goes on trial next week, accused, in his 60's, of fondling dozens of adolescent boys 20-30 years ago.

Tell me how religion makes mental health so much more abundant when people like these few, and historically thousands, use their religious privilege to engage in their criminal acts! Mental health? Religion has nothing to offer, and lots to hide away when it comes to mental health, now, and over at least the last 300 centuries.