GREAT NEWS! RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM MAY BE TREATED AS MENTAL DISORDER

DIGITAL JOURNAL: Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351347#ixzz2Ye4lWKh0 "She notes correctly that "brainwashing" which embraces all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways "we make people think things that might not be good for them, that they might not otherwise have chosen to think," is a much more pervasive social phenomenon than we are willing to recognize. As social animals we are all victims of culturally induced brainwashing whose effectiveness correlates with our inability to think outside the box of our given acculturation." MORE: DIGITALJOURNAL