The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state — and Scalia from his mind

[Brainstormy]

From Salon

The headline on the News Nerd was almost too good to be true: “American Psychological Association to Classify Belief in God As a Mental Illness.” A study, the story beneath it read, had led the APA to conclude that “a strong and passionate belief in a deity or higher power, to the point where it impairs one’s ability to make conscientious decisions about common sense matters, will now be classified as a mental illness.”
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/26/the_religious_have_gone_insane_the_separation_of_church_and_state_and_scalia_from_his_mind/


GREAT article. worth the full read.

[Warpy]

1. It used to be

back in the bad old days of state mental hospitals, that anyone getting messages from god was sent to the crazy house for some medication and a rest to stop the voices and disabuse one of the idea that those voices were anything but hallucination.

First thing I learned when I worked there was that there's no crazy like god crazy.

Now the Republicans put them into high office.

Scalia's been showing signs of organic brain syndrome for a decade. He's not going to get any better. He's likely to get far worse. The sad thing is how few people will notice.

[Major Nikon]

3. No nut like a religious nut

[RussBLib]

2. the News Nerd is a satire site

BUT the items in that story ring true nonetheless

A curious mix of satire and reality