Reply #89: I agree.

[varkam]

I think religion has very little to do with mental illness insofar as being religious causes mental illness or that it is mental illness in and of itself. I think it is also counter-productive to both the purposes to mental health and productive discussion to claim otherwise.

On the first count, I think equating religion with mental illness simply obscures the issues at hand. On the second, it is a rather vicious ad hominem attack given the regrettable stigma that is still attached to mental illness. Consequently, when that charge is made the discussion tends to break-down into a series of bomb-tosses with nothing being accomplished and everyone getting pissed off.

Thanks for the post. K&R.