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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson could face firing squad
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When we’re talking about delusion, we aren’t talking about someone having more processing power but rather misapplied processing power. A delusion can churn away endlessly, like a computer running programs that serve no useful purpose.
If a mind insists “1 + 1 ≠ 2,” the brain may still be processing, but the outcome is detached from reality—so it’s wasted computation.
Think of it like having too many unnecessary programs running in the background on a computer. They eat up memory and processing speed, leaving the system sluggish and ineffective until you shut them down.
Deficits in Executive and Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder: A Case-Control Study - PMC
Delusional disorder has been traditionally considered a psychotic syndrome that does not evolve to cognitive deterioration. However, to date, very little empirical research has been done to explore cognitive executive components and memory processes ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Study: Deficits in Executive and Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder (Ibanez-Casas et al., 2013)
Compared people diagnosed with Delusional Disorder (DD) vs controls on tests of executive function (flexibility/shifting, inhibition/impulsivity, updating) + memory tasks.
What they found: Individuals with DD did significantly poorer on most executive function components (shifting/flexibility, impulse control, updating) and memory. This supports the idea that having delusional beliefs correlates with reduced capacity in things like switching attention, inhibiting irrelevant thoughts, and integrating new information.
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Take a stand on political violence
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This is nonsense.
This chart compares the homicide rate of different countries . The difference between the USA and other western industrialized nations is staggering. Japan and the Scandinavian countries are the most i-religious in the world and have the lowest crime rates and homicide rates in the world.
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
If you were doubting, that long bar at the top is the USA.
And within the USA the same pattern exists:
Homicide Mortality
Map of deaths by homicide per 100,000 total population for each state
www.cdc.gov
The highest homicide rate is in the Bible Belt.
If anything, from these facts I would conclude that at the very least that an absence of christianity does not causes violence or that christianity does not prevent it.
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