tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021171877560843111.post6783319947186508989..comments2023-11-30T01:16:28.705-08:00Comments on An Intro To Renascent Igbo Religion: RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS OF DEPERSONALISATION ORIGIN BY DSM IIIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13895621412750015761noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021171877560843111.post-84462733636976863912016-11-12T02:33:08.818-08:002016-11-12T02:33:08.818-08:00And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM ...And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES, remains a true dictum by a non-medical person that depicts how addictive religion can really be.<br />• “Karl Marx, who believed history was driven by purely material considerations, took a dim view of religious faith, calling it “the opium of the masses” in his writings. The Soviet regime’s Marxist roots and its antipathy toward all social associations and belief systems not under its direct control made it openly opposed to religion from the outset. Shortly after 1917 it impounded the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, forbade religious instruction, instituted antireligious propaganda, and persecuted priests. Atheistic fervor, having abated in the 1920s, reached a crescendo after 1929, when thousands of churches were shut down and razed, only to ebb in the late 1930s and to yield during World War II to pragmatic concessions to believers. The crusade against religion was revived by Khrushchev, then toned down under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.<br />• Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation.<br /> <br />Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher who pioneered STRAIGHT & CROOKED THINKING argued that 2 plus 2 is 4; a fact in mathematics accepted by all and no one quarrels about it because it is FACT but if or when you force people to agree 2 plus 2 is 5, it ceases to be a FACT, it becomes faith and ends as a problem.<br /> <br />• The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.<br />• There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire—poison and antidote.<br />• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.<br />Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)<br />British philosopher and mathematician.<br />Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<br /><br /><br />REVOLUTIONARY PROFESSOR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13895621412750015761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9021171877560843111.post-34322239401216366652016-11-12T02:30:40.061-08:002016-11-12T02:30:40.061-08:00FANATICISM IS A PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND SO IS MYST...FANATICISM IS A PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND SO IS MYSTICISM AS BOTH CONSTITUTE THE TWO SIDES OF A COIN NAMELY EXCESSIVE INDULGENCE IN RELIGION<br /> <br />I had the singular opportunity of critically studying religious excesses from 1980 – 1982 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria as it was the topic I chose and researched on as my M.Sc. dissertation in Mental Health.<br /> <br />I was forced to develop a brand new paper-and-pencil psychological test as there was none in existence as at the material time the Guyana Mass Religious Suicide occurred in Jonestown. Just type Jonestown Mass Suicide into your favourite search engine in the Internet now and read about Rev. Jones and his congregation of more than 900 than drank poison.<br /> <br />Jonestown Mass Suicide<br />The dead bodies of members of the People’s Temple Commune lie before the “throne” of the cult’s leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana. Acting on Jones’s orders, more than 900 cult members committed suicide at the Jonestown commune in 1978 by consuming a cyanide-laced soft drink. The quotation on the wall is from American philosopher George Santayana.<br />Corbis<br />Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<br /> <br />It shocked the world for three years, but did it stop people from becoming fanatics, NO, it did not.<br /><br />REVOLUTIONARY PROFESSOR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUEAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13895621412750015761noreply@blogger.com