narcoleptic primitive says disabled forced into religion

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Oh my.

The things the primitives think about.

Morpheal (145 posts)      Wed Dec-03-08 02:36 AM
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American Disabled Forced To Religion Away From Normalized Lives

It is time that someone from among the experts on disability in America came
forward and explained why America's disabled tend to be forced into a more
extreme religious stance than the average population. They are led, even pushed
and brain washed, against their will away from more normalized relations and
lifestyles, and towards religion in a way that is at distinct variance to the majority
of the rest of the population.

Some are taught that they have nothing to offer anyone other spirituality, and
that religious spirituality is all that they themselves really need.

Clearly a form of prejudice.

I wonder where America's psychologists, sociologists and psychiatrists are
on that one. Seems it has been a taboo subject for far too long.

This, from the chronically-unemployable Perry Como primitive:

Perragrande  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-03-08 02:38 AM
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1. hmmmm

I think a lot of them are fervent believers in religion and miracles because they want to be healed. Just my opinion. Low self esteem may well have a lot to do with it -- christianity feeds very much on low self-esteem by reinforcing it, often leading to depression among churchgoers, and sometimes even to suicide.

Good question.

Inchworm  (1000+ posts)        Wed Dec-03-08 04:46 AM
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2. The whole idea of training society is hogwash to me

It ain't about socialization. It's about the person hearing the crap.

I've learned to "give in" to the staunch representers, but, hey, I had to teach my daughter the same both sides. Where I live revivals still go on.

Certain people target anyone who will listen.

Just sayin...

KamaAina  (1000+ posts)        Tue Dec-16-08 02:39 PM
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3. Possibly because more mainstream society rejects and isolates us?
 
note: my own religious views might be considered extreme in the opposite direction. I am basically one step away from being agnostic; I do believe in something but am not sure what to call it.

I dunno.

[delilahmused]

Perragrande  (1000+ posts)      Wed Dec-03-08 02:38 AM
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1. hmmmm

I think a lot of them are fervent believers in religion and miracles because they want to be healed. Just my opinion. Low self esteem may well have a lot to do with it -- christianity feeds very much on low self-esteem by reinforcing it, often leading to depression among churchgoers, and sometimes even to suicide.

Good question.

Sometimes I think they can't get any stupider, out-of-touch, or cling more tightly to their own stereotypes but they continue to prove me wrong. Interesting the projection, though. There's hardly a thread over there where someone isn't whining and moaning about how bad off they are, what meds they take, how much the people around them suck, who or what is victimizing them now, etc. and yet they manage to project all that onto Christians. For people that think of themselves as deep they don't seem capable of looking much beyond their own reflections.

Cindie