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antonvs • yesterday at 11:20 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> really mental institution level insanity except in the context of religion.

The DSM even has to include an explicit exception to prevent the clinical definition of “delusion” from applying to religious belief. Without that ad hoc exception, religious belief would be classified as clinically delusional.


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mdp2021 • yesterday at 11:25 AM

Still children (the psychiatrists that cannot deal with matters outside their understanding) that have obtained some power and try to exert it over the rest. Scholarization has failed.

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