Mick:

I think you will agree that those who are mentally ill often use religous language or religous groups to hide behind, as well as sometimes getting into other things to cover up their probelms and seek to survive. The number of priests charged with molestation in recent years is a classic example, but it might as well be parents who beat their kids or people who teach scripture in authoritarian, dogmatic ways. And again, you might as well find them in organiuzations like the boy scouts, or local drama clubs, or any other group -- and in all these cases it ha snothing to do with where they end up, or what they dramatize. The "mental illness" is a totally indpendant variable.

The only intersection is when any group enforces data on its members such that it makes them less able to think freely for themselves.
SOme churches and some religions do this, but then so do some boyscout troops, or social studies classes. You can find insanity anywhere, and you can find people who try to heal it, and those who seek to make it worse.

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