Will faith ever be officially recognised as the...

[Missing Link]

...mental health problem that it really is? Talking to highly respected people in the mental health who are also atheists, I have heard of their frustration of how difficult their job can become when the God concepts get in the way of them helping people.It allows people a way of letting themselves off the hook and continue to live in denial of many realities rather than learning to look at themselves and the world around and accept them for what they are.Aside from religion being a mental health problem in its own right through accepting delusions as reality, dosn't it also create a roadblock to dealing with many other mental health issues?Is it really a good thing to tell someone that no, their fridge can't talk to them, but an invisible entity called God can?

[ProveIt!]

This is my crusade. Faith is not fact!

[bookish]

This will not ever happen, because this would be telling the vast majority of people in the world that they are mentally ill. Whether it's true or not, they're just not going to go along with it.

[snypr3939]

Nowadays anyone can get into mental health.

[kj7gs]

True, to an extent. What about faith in NOTHING? If you're going to be scientific about this, you must include atheism by definition as science must be objective to the greatest possible degree.

[BlessingSeeker]

You need to knuckle down to a good bowl of bananas and cream. Its friday, the weekend's here - Afarensis "Lucy" awaits your company.Faith does work though. Faith is the substantiating of things not seen - Hebrews 11:1 . So when it is present things happen.

[uniVerse]

LOL, good one. Well, thats a huge leap of faith(ehem, excuse me) isnt it, recognizing faith as a mental health problem in this country governed largely on religious principles. It will take hundreds of years, a major decline in the number and power of christians for that to be the case. perhaps a thousand years from now, when they are a minority, after nuclear wars, and no jesus returns, yet Jehovah's witness still walk the streets, carrying tattered, long out of print bibles, pleading "still believe, still believe," then people might see how truly ridiculous it all is, and deem it a delusion/psychosis. The heart-breaking thing is while no book says "yes, your fridge can talk to you," a book says "yes, god can talk to you, and you to him." The bible is the problematic bridge/link/ 'proof'/sustenance to the religious delusion.

[doug c]

it's already obvious that christians are mental cases, the reason they believe so hard in this so-called god is because they are all to cowardly to face the fact that like everyone else...they will die alone and go nowhere. being delusional seems to make them feel better, and if there are millions of delusional idiots with them on the planet they don't feel that bad anymore.....but there still nutsssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!! those who believe in a god go to bed at night feeling better after convincing themselves they go to heaven, on the other hand athiests tell you they rot in the ground when they die. honestly they are even more cowardly than christians because they have convinced everyone that first they DON'T believe in god, then spend the rest of there lives trying to convince themselves. the truth is that those idiots sit in there dark little corners wallowing in there own fear of where they are going and it makes them bitter. believe or don't believe, but it doesn't matter when both groups ( christians and athiests ) in the end are both faithless cowards bickering at one another to make them feel better about the other persons made up lies of the afterlife. deal with it losers.