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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2017 15:22:58 GMT
Religion & Mental Health: New Study Links Belief In ‘Punitive God’ To Emotional Problems www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/religion-mental-health-angry-god-brain_n_3097025.html"Many people find comfort in religious faith, but a provocative new study links certain beliefs with emotional problems. The study, published April 10 in the Journal of Religion & Health, showed that people who believe in an angry, vengeful god are more likely to suffer from social anxiety, paranoia, obsessional thinking, and compulsions."
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Post by Bodhitree on Jul 18, 2017 5:26:08 GMT
This makes perfect sense to me - if you believe in a higher being who is vengeful and negative, of course people's levels of stress and any associated dysfunctions are going to increase. It's a clear example of a belief being harmful to the larger person. But also I find it strange to picture a higher being at all who still has these human emotions of anger and vengefulness, it seems likely they would long ago have left these behind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2017 10:03:01 GMT
Religion & Mental Health: New Study Links Belief In ‘Punitive God’ To Emotional Problems www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/religion-mental-health-angry-god-brain_n_3097025.html"Many people find comfort in religious faith, but a provocative new study links certain beliefs with emotional problems. The study, published April 10 in the Journal of Religion & Health, showed that people who believe in an angry, vengeful god are more likely to suffer from social anxiety, paranoia, obsessional thinking, and compulsions." This has affected me in the past and possibly still to this day. It is the idea that God was making me think of a compulsion that I had to carry out or something bad would happen. I think it made it harder to stop. The Bible is full of people who suffered when they annoyed God or went against His will. Therefore I thought that I couldn't stop doing the compulsion. I don't think of it much now but I think it is still the main reason I have not stopped the compulsions. So for me the article is probably quite accurate.
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