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To: RobbyS
The Soviets often sent dissidents to psychiatric hospitals on the basis that opposition to the regime was a symptom of mental illness.

Sigmund Freud believed that religious belief was itself a form of mental illness, as does much of the psychiatric profession.

The AmChurch bishops would not be so hostile to the Catholic faith as it was held for nineteen and a half centuries unless their true faith was a less venerable man-made creed.
32 posted on 07/05/2003 8:29:08 AM PDT by Loyalist (Keeper of the Schismatic Orc Ping List. Freepmail me if you want on or off it.)
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To: Loyalist
Most people in the universities are taught the old positivist dogma that religion belongs to the childhood of mankind, and that any educated adult who is a believer is deluded. In place of a faith in God, they have faith in science--or whatever pretends to be science.
41 posted on 07/05/2003 9:36:30 AM PDT by RobbyS
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