Religious fundamentalism Cureable

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A leading neurologist at the University of Oxford said this week that recent developments meant that science may one day be able to identify religious fundamentalism as a “mental illness” and a cure it.

During a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday, Kathleen Taylor was asked what positive developments she anticipated in neuroscience in the next 60 years.

“One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated,” she explained, according to The Times of London. “Somebody who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology – we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.”

“I am not just talking about the obvious candidates like radical Islam or some of the more extreme cults,” she explained. “I am talking about things like the belief that it is OK to beat your children. These beliefs are very harmful but are not normally categorized as mental illness.”

“In many ways that could be a very positive thing because there are no doubt beliefs in our society that do a heck of a lot of damage, that really do a lot of harm.”

In the introduction to her book, The Brain Supremacy, Taylor noted that scientists needed “to be careful when it comes to developing technologies which can slip through the skull to directly manipulate the brain.”

“They cannot be morally neutral, these world-shaping tools; when the aspect of the world in question is a human being, morality inevitably rears its hydra heads,” she wrote. “Technologies which profoundly change our relationship with the world around us cannot simply be tools, to be used for good or evil, if they alter our basic perception of what good and evil are.”

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Interesting, I always knew they were sick in the head and that there was a cure    but this cure is a new one   Just waiting for the fatwa and the death threats to start rolling in

[P7PSP]

Curing people of wrong beliefs is not my idea of a better society. I wonder if Kathleen Taylor would have approved of Boris Pasternak's imprisonment? 

[McGiver]

Curing people of wrong beliefs is not my idea of a better society. I wonder if Kathleen Taylor would have approved of Boris Pasternak's imprisonment? 

when their 'blind faith' belief system becomes a powerful voting bloc used to get peasants to vote against their own interests....
They need curing.

[Icequeen]

Cure it.

[Jack]

Certainly the typical fundamentalist would find that embarrassing.

[Calavera]

Problem is no two fundamentalists are the exact same.

[Jack]

That's a bit of a relief, the idea that there might not be another exactly like her; though there likely is.

[P7PSP]

Curing people of wrong beliefs is not my idea of a better society. I wonder if Kathleen Taylor would have approved of Boris Pasternak's imprisonment? 

when their 'blind faith' belief system becomes a powerful voting bloc used to get peasants to vote against their own interests....
They need curing.

Nice of you to be so tolerant of beliefs you don't disagree with. The peasants should be forced to think good thoughts. 

[P7PSP]

Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of grievances unless McJ et al determine they know better.

[Jesse]

Curing people of wrong beliefs is not my idea of a better society.

I agree. no matter how dumb people really are they should be allowed to be, As far as them being a voting block yep. but even if all those Christians wern't allowed to vote something just as dumb would replace it. Humanity is doomed, and has been for awile

[skyblue1]

nice post

[Gopher Gary]

The only possible cure for such a ubiquitous infection is most certainly a global cleansing fire.

[skyblue1]

The only possible cure for such a ubiquitous infection is most certainly a global cleansing fire.

Yellowstone volcano

[Jesse]

Sacrifice some hair clippings to the Yellowstone volcano dude. start a church, enjoy tax exempt status and lure poor suckers in
I'm thinking this would be a good Idea, just don't have the heart for it though

[Parts]

Curing people of wrong beliefs is not my idea of a better society. I wonder if Kathleen Taylor would have approved of Boris Pasternak's imprisonment? 

Generally I would agree with that but when those wrong beliefs are taken to the point that they injurious to others(killing,beating, ect.)  well what do you do?