I agree with this core part of your point. I know through experience though that as it gets brought up here on the forum, even if it starts off as being in a context to try to help people understand their mental health issues, it tends to derail into a debate purely about religion and belief in God. Which is generally not helpful overall because it creates bad feeling between people usually to argue like this on something that is so core to the heart of their beliefs (be they religious or not) and usually that's not particularly helpful to have a bunch of members on the forum who are feeling their core beliefs have been attacked (aka questioned) and can feel like they aren't supported by those people in their pursuit to help resolve some of their mental health issues. Whilst it isn't necessarily the case at all that the people who disagree with others views on religion are not supportive of the people they reply to- it's in general a much more productive place as a supportive mental health forum when debates about religion don't enter into it. Hence the forum rules about tolerance and not excessively bringing it up...HesDeltanCaptain wrote:But it doesn't much imagination to see that if a person's especially devout and believes in their deity in al iteral sense, that any mental issues might be more easily udnerstood through the lens of a religious discussion than purely a scientific one.
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