I read of an inconsistent mindset.
God this. God that. "Natural selection didn't design" which is contradictory. Evolved murder monkeys. Happy to have babies.
Women are indeed saved by childbirth. Men too.
God this. God that. "Natural selection didn't design" which is contradictory. Evolved murder monkeys. Happy to have babies.
Women are indeed saved by childbirth. Men too.
He's an atheist psychiatrist. However, he enjoys how natural selection, social dynamics and reputation can also be modeled by the moral rules of most religions. For example, going to therapy isn't that different from practicing confessions in a church.
If your therapist responds to your sharing by suggesting that straying from their advice, or some kooky ancient text, results in eternal damnation then run far away. Churches can be devastating to ones mental health. Do not recommend.
No issue with your first clause: indeed, churches can be devastating to one's mental health (as can ~anything). That observation does not support your second clause. Religiosity is generally associated with lower mental health problems [0]. Correlation is not causation, of course; difficult to do a prospective study in this field.
[0] E.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462234/
Depends on the kind of therapy. Some are more dogmatic and one might even call them "religious" (overloading the word), while other forms of therapy are more grounded and based on empiricism -- the latter ones are far removed from religious confession.
Isn't everybody full of contradictions?
saved from what?
To be fair I've been traveling so it could easily be user error.