Jovial Monk wrote on May 30
th, 2017 at 10:48am:
All tales to amuse the masses.
Marx was right, religion is the opium of the people.
The 'opiate' of the people.
I would contend the fact that as religion is so widespread throughout the world this would seem to suggest that it serves a therapeutic purpose just as smoking does.
Jovial Monk wrote on May 30
th, 2017 at 10:48am:
BTW, any evidence yet for your proposition that gayness is an infectious mental disease?
Don't be so defensive. I myself have been clinically diagnosed by psychiatrists as being chronically depressed, for which I feel no shame or embarrassment.
I think it's academically dangerous when the entire psychiatric profession is made to recant on homosexuality being a severe neurotic mental condition because Lefties working at UN Headquarters had decided it was not politically correct from the Social-Marxist point of view to cite gayness as an aberration.
When ideology trumps academic truth then we're taken back to the Roman Catholic church forcing Galileo to recant on his findings that the Earth orbits around the sun and not vice versa.
We are already well into the Orwellian Era in which Truth is obliged by our socialist media to first be fed through a PC filter in order not to offend our minorities - be they Muslims or homosexuals.
Defensive? I asked a question is all.
Hmmmm “socialist media” that can’t include the Murdoch press, not Fairfax and the ABC is just an arm of the Murdoch media empire so you can’t mean any of that. True, in Europe (incl the UK) there are papers with a left of centre bias but they are just one voice.