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a biologist says missus gonna cause some controversy
that religious fundamentalism could be mental illness for a long time
on this show we've been saying that the line between
fundamentalist
religious beliefs
and schizophrenic or otherwise disturbed mental illness thai police is is a
pretty blurry line and now and oxford university researcher named kathleen
taylor says that one day religious fundamentalism may be considered
and treated
as eight curable
mental illness
you surprised even with your reactions is offensive to you lose
no uh... i'd just don't know
if if i would agree with that it seems that if you're a bit you're boring
andy something his drove into your brain from day one right
ito believing i wholeheartedly may not necessarily be mental illness well let's
explore what she says further
one of the surprises that made but more to the surprises maybe to see people
with certain beliefs is people who can be treated
someone who is for example become radicalized to a cult ideology we might
stop seeing that as a personal choice that they've chosen out of pure free
will and may start treating it as a sort of mental disturbance in many ways it
could be a very positive thing
because there are no doubt beliefs in our society that to happen a lot of
damage
and she says she's not referring jester obvious candidates like radical islam
but he's also including for example christian beliefs that beating children
is something that god is indicated they should do we've talked about a lot of
those stories that all of that
could be
uh... forms of of of a mental disturbance the could be treated and i
would go even further i would say
what about the beliefs that
repressed pre people's ability to grow to be creative tha to limit their kind
of freedoms wet or or or to make them want to limit other people's freedoms
based on these beliefs what do you think baton about this analysis
well i'd find a potential applications of this uh... pretty distressing because
you can then doesn't foresee a time where
the government will determine that uh... someone who is against the government
and says certain things about it ll including some people that we think are
ridiculous like alex jones and other people right and then say that we need
to treat them uh... in some cases against their will through so uh... i'm
kind of concerned about the idea of medical ising um... all of these uh...
believes understand the idea that we're not talking about simple example
religious people replied ma fundamentalism right but i think when
you apply it to other types of bullies idon't think will be so hot to think
about the consequences
yeah i'm sure there is some cases in which
uh... enough schizophrenia manifest itself in the form of uh... radical our
religious beliefs yeah but in other cases i think it really is just
stupidity and or indoctrination
uh... invited says this could go in in many different directions the argument
that it's just the way
decatur de indoctrinated and brought up couldn't we argue that a lot of commonly
accepted mental illness like for example you know
uh... deep depression or schizophrenic these types of things while they may
have a biological component
severe trauma in upbringing ten certainly bring al those conditions
wouldn't this be along those same lines
maybe an hour
is there is some some irony
to the fact that
for a long time fundamentalists have been saying it's gay people that are
actually mentally ill and now not only how we would not only are we confirmed
that gay people art mentally ill
we might actually defining some information there are some there's some
theories that that it's those fundamentalist beliefs that might be a
sign of mental disturbance there something ironic that i think uh...