It seems possible that schizophrenics and psychotics benefit from understanding that the voices they hear are their own and by learning to get along with them, they can diminish the frightening and disrupting effects of these conditions.
Now, it seems to me that some religious people become so engrossed by one venerated Holy personage that they too develop a mild psychosis of the hearing voices type. Otherwise I find it hard to see why simply the written word of Holy Scripture would be so convincing. Is it possible that constant rehearsal of Holy devotions causes a psychosis that can lead to apologetics and, at the opposite end of the scale, even suicide bombing?
Now, it seems to me that some religious people become so engrossed by one venerated Holy personage that they too develop a mild psychosis of the hearing voices type. Otherwise I find it hard to see why simply the written word of Holy Scripture would be so convincing. Is it possible that constant rehearsal of Holy devotions causes a psychosis that can lead to apologetics and, at the opposite end of the scale, even suicide bombing?
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