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Iceland Declares All Religions Are Mental Disorders
[patheos.com]
What are opinions here?

UPDATE: This is a satirical article and not real. I missed it and apologize. Thanks to WilliamFlemin for posting the Snopes article identifying it as a satire.
[snopes.com]

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RussRAB 8 Feb 14
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Some people have a deep rooted need to believe.
Wether this is through nurture or nature I do not have the answer.

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Vote: None of the above. Religions are belief systems given credence by the mentally infirm.

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I'm with Freud.

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All religious belief systems entail the existence of supernatural beings which is one valid definition of insanity.

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How is truly blind faith NOT a type of mental disorder?? I'll never get why there aren't more of us out there.

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If could, I'd move to Iceland.

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Religion is a meme, in its original defintion: "an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture." It is a mental virus that evolves and impacts the hosts. It becomes a mental disorder if (or when) it negatively impacts the host or those around them.

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Choosing to ignore facts and believe something that cannot be demonstrated in any meaningful way is a mental disorder.

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There's a danger in these satirical publications, because those who are willfully ignorant never read beyond the headlines and pass it along as fact. I had to educate someone yesterday on facebook that Pelosi did not take millions from Social Security to pay for the impeachment proceedings. That article also appeared in a satirical publication.

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Lol funny

bobwjr Level 10 Feb 14, 2020
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[snopes.com]

It’s simply not true.

65% of Icelanders belong to the Church of Iceland, though many are members in name only.

Thanks for posting this link; I stand corrected. I honestly didn't think to fact check the article. I found it as a link to another article about Jim Bakker hocking a Silver Solution that is supposed to cure a coronavirus infection. The Iceland article is tagged as satire, but it is a small button after the end of the article, an ad or two, and couple other links. I've been caught on satirical articles before - it's always embarrassing. Again, thanks for posting the Snopes article. Fact checking is our friend. 😊

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I applaud Iceland and Sweden for their principled and enlightened stands.
While I don't see religion as necessarily a "mental disorder," in some of it's myriad forms (fundamentalist Christianity, jihad Islam, etc.) it most certainly IS deranged and potentially harmful especially to vulnerable, impressionable, and/or developing minds.

The article is not true.

@WilliamFleming Oh well.
Been punked before!

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