Religion is a Mental Illness

"One man’s experience is nothing if it stands alone. If he sees what others cannot, we call it hallucination. It is not ‘my’ experience but ‘our’ experience that has to be thought of; and this ‘us’ has indefinite possibilities."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

"It's not all that uncommon for healthy people-as well as those suffering from mental disorders-to hallucinate dead people talking to them.

So Paul provides no basis whatever for believing in the resurrection.

No matter how fervently, how passionately Paul believed that his visions of Jesus were the real thing, the stuff going on inside his head should be of little interest to anyone seeking to find out what actually happened."

-- David Madison

Christianity, Islam & Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

According to Dr. Jerome Engel and a number of other neuroscientists, Joan of Arc, Saint Paul and the Prophet Muhammad, may have in fact suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; a neurological disorder that causes auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as seizures and an increased sex drive, all symptoms which these three characters were alleged to have suffered. If such is the case, then over half of the earth's population are spending their entire existence chasing the hallucinations of epileptics.

-- Michael Sherlock