Are atheists mentally ill?

[Wiggs]

Atheists... claim to believe in nothing or noone. Kind of ironic, no?


"Spiritually retarded" definitely a fitting term.


At least in the end of their pitiful lives, they always change their minds and renounce their non-existent choice to not make a choice even though they actually have made a choice....lol


The sun sets and rises on the good and the evil. Shows that they are loved in spite of themselves.



Oh well, we all know these kinds of threads never end well. This is where I stopped reading... so carry on our wayward ones, carry on.

Amen brother!

[The True Adonis]

[The True Adonis]

I love the "fuck off, Jesus" meme lol

haha yes.  Bodybuilding related.

[The True Adonis]

[Roger Bacon]

 

[Primemuscle]

i met a girl last night and we played a little bit religious debating, but agreed to not get angry or fall out, she defended religion, i asked the hard questions, must say it was a very interesting and productive talk.but with the questions, i provided slight modifications and interpretations on how to make biblical stuff seem possible, so i had neutral as possible stance.

we both believe there is something out there, whos to say that the creation force isnt god.

i aske last question and what if its all nothing and we just die.she said well then atleast we die with hope into something.

In my opinion, this kind of thinking is mere proof that we would all do well to live in the here and now and do the best with that, that we can.

[NordicNerd]

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In 2004, scholars at UCLA revealed that college students involved in religious activities are likely to have better mental health. In 2006, population researchers at the University of Texas discovered that the more often you go to church, the longer you live. ...

This is epidemiological bullshit research. It's like the research showing that being in a hospital is dangerous, because it is associated with a sky-high risk of dying. Well, duh, I hope the intelligent getbiggers see the problem with that conclusion.

Same with going to church. It introduces a massive selection bias. You need to be able to travel to go to church, hence, very sick people will tend to go less to church. Dementia, neuropsychiatric illness, vascular disease, cancer etc etc, all diseases common in the elderly, will tend to make people not go outside much, much less to a social gathering like in a church. Thus, this will show up as a finding indicating that church is beneficial, while the reason may be selection. This is the curse of all observational research.

NN

[Teutonic Knight]

So how exactly are atheists mentally ill if they don't believe? I don't care what others believe, but this is the same kind of post as if I went attacking any religious group.

 

I am Agnostic 

[phreak]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100231060/are-atheists-mentally-ill/
Are atheists mentally ill?

Thanks to a couple of surveys, it’s being put about in certain circles that atheists have higher IQs than believers. That may or may not be the case, but one problem with this argument is that, if you accept "average group differences in IQ”, you get into all sorts of sinister debates which bien pensant atheist Lefties might find less to their liking.

So let’s not go down that unhappy road. Let’s dispense with the crude metric of IQ and look at the actual lives led by atheists, and believers, and see how they measure up. In other words: let’s see who is living more intelligently.

And guess what: it’s the believers. A vast body of research, amassed over recent decades, shows that religious belief is physically and psychologically beneficial – to a remarkable degree.

In 2004, scholars at UCLA revealed that college students involved in religious activities are likely to have better mental health. In 2006, population researchers at the University of Texas discovered that the more often you go to church, the longer you live. In the same year researchers at Duke University in America discovered that religious people have stronger immune systems than the irreligious. They also established that churchgoers have lower blood pressure.

Meanwhile in 2009 a team of Harvard psychologists discovered that believers who checked into hospital with broken hips reported less depression, had shorter hospital stays, and could hobble further when they left hospital – as compared to their similarly crippled but heathen fellow-sufferers.

So let me get this straight: We should all be religious, so that we will live longer, so that we will enter the (putative) afterlife LATER? Where is the sense in that?

[Croatch]

People feel the need to believe they're part of something more grand than a cow's life.  Or when a person dies, they clings to any odd logic....he's in a better place, etc.  Things happen in God"s time, it wasn't God's will.
People will believe almost anything, if taught from a young age.
My problem is I like to actually think and use a little logic.  Have you ever listened to stories from the bible?  Sounds like Dungeons and Dragons tales.  If someone you just met told you these stories in a modern context, you would laugh and tell them they were full of shit.
It's amusing listening to religious people though.  So thanks, if you are

[phreak]

Have you ever listened to stories from the bible?  Sounds like Dungeons and Dragons tales. 

are you saying the bible should be turned into a board game for nerds, instead of a sex game for pedos?

[LurkerNoMore]

Coach claims that prayers have been proven to work and there is evidence that supports this claim.  Of course, he never posts it.

[Borracho]

hahaha I love that guy!!

[Dr.Ill]

Mr. Adonis, please enlighten us less fortunate simpletons your expertise on how we came to know what we are today, without God?

[NordicNerd]

Mr. Adonis, please enlighten us less fortunate simpletons your expertise on how we came to know what we are today, without God?

How did "God" come to know what he knows today without a meta-"God"?

NN

[Man of Steel]

No, all atheists are not mentally ill.

That's a ridiculous notion.

[Ronnie Rep]

Religion is a tool for the weak, lazy, and ignorant!

[Man of Steel]

TA casually pushin an awful lot of buttons in this thread.   

[Wiggs]

Spiritually retarded. They should have to wear helmets with identifying marks and be put in labor camps.

[Man of Steel]

This is epidemiological bullshit research. It's like the research showing that being in a hospital is dangerous, because it is associated with a sky-high risk of dying. Well, duh, I hope the intelligent getbiggers see the problem with that conclusion.

Same with going to church. It introduces a massive selection bias. You need to be able to travel to go to church, hence, very sick people will tend to go less to church. Dementia, neuropsychiatric illness, vascular disease, cancer etc etc, all diseases common in the elderly, will tend to make people not go outside much, much less to a social gathering like in a church. Thus, this will show up as a finding indicating that church is beneficial, while the reason may be selection. This is the curse of all observational research.

NN

I tend to agree that this type of "research" doesn't mean much at all.

[The Ugly]

Is this thread meant to be ironic?

[99 Bananas]

Why must a person have any interest in ''god'' at all? God is irrelevant. There's nothing to be believed or disbelieved. Of course retards don't understand this. People that believe and don't believe are mentally ill. If you don't believe there is still investing in non-belief. Until you let go of this idea of a god you're a slave to a lesser mind.

[Man of Steel]

Why must a person have any interest in ''god'' at all? God is irrelevant. There's nothing to be believed or disbelieved. Of course retards don't understand this.

You aren't required to have any interest in God.  Feel free to live out your days however you prefer.

[99 Bananas]

This is what I mean.

I go outside and I see something growing from the ground. If you speak in english you'd call it a tree.

But here is god..... I've never seen it. I've only heard the word with nothing to apply it to other than some frivolous belief handed down from people assumed to be wiser. WHAT?! How is that logical in any way?

I do see that there is a life force. Such as a cut on my arm that would heal without my doing anything. This is the closest thing i could imagine to being god. But to limit it in any way by calling it something so ridiculous is to go astray from rationality IMO.

[The Ugly]

This is what I mean.

I go outside and I see something growing from the ground. If you speak in english you'd call it a tree.

But here is god..... I've never seen it. I've only heard the word with nothing to apply it to other than some frivolous belief handed down from people assumed to be wiser. WHAT?! How is that logical in any way?

It isn't.