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Letter: Religious extremism should be rightly classified as psychosis

Editor,

Now that we acknowledge drug-induced psychosis, we should also acknowledge psychosis induced purely by religion. After all, ISIL among the Muslims, the KKK among the Christians, and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh among the Hindus are all gangs of violent psychopaths. The problem is that any religion is very clever at broadcasting that it is the corresponding non-believers who have this or that delusion, not they.

Take climate change. Well-funded Christian fundamentalists, even in this scientifically advanced country, claim that climate change is delusion. In reality, it is they who are delusional about man-made climate change as fact — the most obvious causative factor to anybody breathing being the plumes of pollution blanketing the sky throughout the thin skin around Earth we call the atmosphere.

But self-proclaimed Christian “scientists” get into government and say things like “You only have to reflect God, and you can breathe anything and you will never fall sick.” Then they take their hats off to the likes of the Koch brothers, who toss in more change. Or Christians imagine some “God” to be pulling the strings and sending down lightning with pinpoint accuracy in the manner of laser-guided missiles, and thus effecting climate change, not man.

As a result, humanity is being pummeled by weather extremes like never before.

On a similar note, take beef-eating in India, now actually made illegal by Hindu fanatics under cover of the cow being sacred. All kinds of pseudoscience is being spread to rationalize this draconian law banning its consumption, even trafficking that has resulted in truck drivers transporting beef being dragged out and beaten up by these psychopaths.

As a result, all manner of the poor in India, including farmers ripped off by capitalism who would eat the meat from dead cows, are not getting enough protein, and India’s significant income from exporting beef has dropped needlessly.

But these psychotics go about their murderous ways, driven all too often by religious hallucinations they call visions and hallucinating acid-heads call “glimpses of the supernatural.”

The good news is that many of them get off these trips by letting themselves be deprogrammed from religion, just as addicts get off drugs, and these symptoms subside. Either that, or overdose on religiosity through suicide terrorism.

Sincerely,

Arun Anand Ahuja

UNM student

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