Mental Disease

Fundamentalism is definitely a mental disease. Like that guy who went off and wrote the 50 page post on the occamsrazor site, mental! Whenever we simply take something as is, because we feel it or someone has told us so, we are truly closing our minds to the inability to find truth. If I were to tell you that my head is actually the head of a cow, or something absurd like that, and everyone did everything they could to show me and prove to me logically and scientifically, and I stubbornly said, "No, I know that it is true and there is nothing you can say to prove it to me", we would all agree that I have a mental disease (well, maybe "I" wouldn't, but I would). Likewise, when someone turns into a Fundamentalist and believes everything literally and acts illogically because of those beliefs, we agree that they have a mental disease.

Sadly, there are many fundamentalist who do many irrational things like kill doctors at abortion clinics even though the very sacred scripture that they read says "Thou shalt not kill". And sadly there are other fundamentalist who bomb buildings and public places to send a message that the enemy is bad and evil, but they do not see the evil in bombing innocent people, even people who sometimes share their same convictions. These are mental diseases which block the normal, rational and logical process the brain should process information and facts in order to come to a correct conclusion.