Iceland - all religious beliefs are mental disorders

[Lilith7]

How interesting it will be to see what, if anything comes of this. Found it over the way & had a look...the world is a weird place. And humans are crazy.

(Satire)


https://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingin...disorders/

"[b]*Reykyavik, Iceland ÔÇô┬á[/b]This small island country in the North Atlantic is home to many controversies. The countryÔÇÖs parliament┬ávoted in 2017 to place mental health warnings on all Bibles. In that same year, the nation took another secular step forward┬áby banning American televangelists. Iceland is now declaring all religions to be psychological disorders."


I think we have the perfect penalty for the McBishop - send the bugger to Iceland for a year or several; no preaching permitted.

[Magoo]

well it has to be said...believing in immaculate conception, spontaneous combustion, transmogrification, remerging corpses (i think zombie is the modern term), telepathic communication, parting oceans, touch healing etc etc is no different than believing in unicorns or talking to windmills

ive been to iceland. food not that flash if fish isnt your thing.
very progressive folk the icelandic. first woman head of state?
i can neither confirm nor deny that the culture of womenfolk trying out lots of men before deciding on a keeper is not frowned upon. i shit you not.

https://www.icenews.is/2017/04/25/though...x-culture/
https://adventures.is/blog/icelandic-women/

[Praktica]

An Icelandic fish specialty is Hákarl.

[Lilith7]

An Icelandic fish specialty is Hákarl.

There was a recent series about Iceland in which the presenter had to try some - he didn't look at all keen, but said it tasted good.

[Magoo]

they eat these horrible fishy things called rollmops.
they were yuk.

[Lilith7]

I've heard of those - not keen to try them though.

[Magoo]

had my first one on the plane with a shot of chilled icelandic vodka
the vodka didnt help it

[TygerTung]

It isn't real. Never happened.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/icelan...disorders/

[Magoo]

perhaps they should?
makes sense to me, but then i think gender confusion is a disorder too
its one thing to believe in pink elephants, its quite another to recruit others to do the same, and then form cults (blind faith) to idolise them. that kind of mental processing speaks to a disorder.

[Lilith7]

It isn't real. Never happened.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/icelan...disorders/

You might have missed this, from the OP:

(Satire)

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perhaps they should?
makes sense to me,  but then i think gender confusion is a disorder too
its one thing to believe in pink elephants, its quite another to recruit others to do the same, and then form cults (blind faith) to idolise them.  that kind of mental processing speaks to a disorder.

If people could be content to believe whatever the hell they please, without the need to try to force it on others & oblige them to live according to those beliefs then religion wouldn't be a problem.

[TygerTung]

Really, though, evolution is a religion too. It is only a theory. It really is just as wild to believe that life can magically appear from a big mess on a radiated planet and then magically get more and more complicated, despite entropy and environmental damage.

One has to have faith to believe in Darwinism, same as any other theory of how life got here.

[Praktica]

"Only a theory"...well...

[Olive]

The Darwinian theory of evolution has withstood the test of time and thousands of scientific experiments; nothing has disproved it since Darwin first proposed it more than 150 years ago.

For further details: https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...eationist/

[TygerTung]

The Darwinian theory of evolution has withstood the test of time and thousands of scientific experiments; nothing has disproved it since Darwin first proposed it more than 150 years ago.

For further details:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...eationist/

Sure, but it is all just a theory. Otherwise it wouldn't be the "Theory of Evolution". Same as the "Theory of Creation" or whatever other theories are going around.

People can just believe in whatever they find most convincing. No point attacking or putting others down because they don't subscribe to the same theory as you do. That isn't very nice.

[Praktica]

The Darwinian theory of evolution has withstood the test of time and thousands of scientific experiments; nothing has disproved it since Darwin first proposed it more than 150 years ago.

For further details:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...eationist/

Sure, but it is all just a theory. Otherwise it wouldn't be the "Theory of Evolution". Same as the "Theory of Creation" or whatever other theories are going around.

People can just believe in whatever they find most convincing. No point attacking or putting others down because they don't subscribe to the same theory as you do. That isn't very nice.

Give us the evidence for a "theory of creation".

[Lilith7]

Its rather more than theory, but the use of that term can apparently cause confusion.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...eationist/

"Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certaintyÔÇöabove a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is ÔÇ£a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.ÔÇØ No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolutionÔÇöor the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matterÔÇöthey are not expressing reservations about its truth.

In addition to the theory of evolution, meaning the idea of descent with modification, one may also speak of the fact of evolution. The NAS defines a fact as ÔÇ£an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as ÔÇÿtrue.ÔÇÖÔÇØ The fossil record and abundant other evidence testify that organisms have evolved through time."

[TygerTung]

Sure, but it is all just a theory. Otherwise it wouldn't be the "Theory of Evolution". Same as the "Theory of Creation" or whatever other theories are going around.

People can just believe in whatever they find most convincing. No point attacking or putting others down because they don't subscribe to the same theory as you do. That isn't very nice.

Give us the evidence for a "theory of creation".

Would you be convinced, even if I did give you evidence?

[Praktica]

Give us the evidence for a "theory of creation".

Would you be convinced, even if I did give you evidence?

What do you class as evidence?

[Magoo]

it was a theory once.
darwin proposed developmental biology based on observation..
this has proven to be true time and time again first by the fossil record and more recently using dna identifiers.

[TygerTung]

Would you be convinced, even if I did give you evidence?

What do you class as evidence?

Look, I was once an athiest, very firmly convinced. I now am not. But this is a personal thing. I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. It would be pointless. All I am saying is that it fruitless trying to tell someone is wrong because of their beliefs. Whatever those beliefs might be.