Last month, Jules Evans of Wired Magazine posted an article entitled The religious are all psychotic (in a good way) which argued that: A new paper by Heriot-Maitland, Knight and Peters in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology (BJCP) estimates that 10-15 percent of the population encounter 'out-of-the-ordinary experiences' (OOEs) such as hearing voices. By automatically pathologising and hospitalising such people, we are sacrificing them to our own secular belief system, not unlike the Church burning witches.
The Religious are All Psychotic (in a bad way)
The Religious are All Psychotic (in a bad…
The Religious are All Psychotic (in a bad way)
Last month, Jules Evans of Wired Magazine posted an article entitled The religious are all psychotic (in a good way) which argued that: A new paper by Heriot-Maitland, Knight and Peters in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology (BJCP) estimates that 10-15 percent of the population encounter 'out-of-the-ordinary experiences' (OOEs) such as hearing voices. By automatically pathologising and hospitalising such people, we are sacrificing them to our own secular belief system, not unlike the Church burning witches.