Mental Disorder

Richard Dawkins says he

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Richard Dawkins says he can’t be sure God doesn’t exist. Well, you know what I do when I’m not sure about something? I go on a big crusade about it and write a bunch of books on the subject. No, wait, that sounds more like what someone with a mental disorder would do. That’s one … Read more

I would like to

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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I’d like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings – an MO is a Mental Observation inmate – from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can’t put people in jail for having mental disorders. Cecily McMillan

The Christian view that

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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. … Read more

If one looks with

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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole … Read more