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BenevolentM -> RE: Human Animal Hybrids and the AntiChrist (9/21/2014 3:18:36 PM)
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Obviously you cannot distinguish between fact and hypothesis. Some of the results of modern science are suggestive of various possibilities that may not have been considered in the past, but possibility and reality are distinct. They are lines of study/speculation, nothing more. Your bias is clearly causing you to exaggerate the significance of such observations. Some connection does not imply a total connection.
Now the religious also explore lines of study/speculation. For example, is the anti-Christ alive in our time? Who is the best candidate for the anti-Christ? Is he a man of peace? Hmm. What I have heard about schizophrenia is that it is possible that their symptoms are a result of not being able to filter information; they don't have a BS meter. In other words they assign too high weight or perhaps also too little weight to things. In others they are unable to or find it difficult to distinguish between lines of study/speculation and fact.
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
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ORIGINAL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_schizophrenia
The relationship between religion and schizophrenia is of particular interest to psychologists because of the similarities between religious experiences and psychotic episodes; religious experiences often involve auditory and/or visual hallucinations, and those with schizophrenia commonly report similar hallucinations, along with a variety of delusions and faulty beliefs. A common report from those with schizophrenia is some type of a religious delusion - that is, they believe they are divine beings, God is talking to them, they are possessed by demons, etc.[5][6][7] In a study of patients with schizophrenia that had been previously admitted to a hospital, 24% had religious delusions.[8] This has led some researchers to question whether schizophrenia leads an individual to become more religious, or if intense religiosity leads to schizophrenia.[9]
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