Religion
In reply to the discussion: Simple Question about Culpability.. [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts).. and they'd be entitled to agree. i'm not asking them, i'm asking you, because i'm interested, as i said, in understanding how permissive attitudes toward anything-goes religious belief might send the wrong message to people on the edge of a trigger event. we tend to be very permissive .. 'believe anything and i'll defend your right to believe it' ..
.. i'm asking if that's wise, as a people. not as psychologists. as a people, is it wise to encourage people to believe that god might speak to them? when you can't hear god's voice, that's fine. when you can actually hear god's voice, and he's telling you to kill yourself or others, day after day .. well then 'we' usually diagnose that as a mental illness, using the DSM for our standard, so i refer to it for reference in my examples, to spur dialogue in this conversation, that's all.