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Thread #75036   Message #1313395
Posted By: Big Mick
01-Nov-04 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Religion a form of Mental Illness ???
Subject: RE: BS: Is Religion a form of Mental Illness ???
Amos, I agree that folks with mental illness will latch onto any organization that is handy and allows them the room to maneuver. As to the number of priests charged with sexual misconduct, the severest critics agree that the total number is something less than 2%. How does that bolster any argument about mental illness? I have been a Boy Scout and I have been an Altar Server. Guess which organization it was that I was sexually abused in when I was just a kid? The Boy Scouts. The workplace sees many more examples, by number and by percentage, of sexual abuse and mental abuse. Does that make employment a form of mental illness?

The whole predicate this thread is formed on is phoney and agenda driven.

Mick