Author Topic: Danforth Shooting  (Read 2680 times)

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Re: Danforth Shooting
« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2018, 06:27:35 pm »
Given the specificity the family gave about his history of illness, I'd find it probable him having mental illness is true.
Me too, but many won't. 

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As for religious fanaticism and mental illness, they can be linked but certainly don't have to be.  I know smart people who graduated university who believe Noah's Ark really happened.
I guess I don't consider being religious per se as being either fanatical or crazy.  It's when your behavior takes you far outside behavioral norms for either the religion and/or your society that I would think those terms apply.  Spending one's life reciting the Koran, literally falling dead while doing it, preaching on a bullhorn while standing on a street corner wearing a "repent" sandwhich sign, covering your mobility scooter in huge signs with Biblical verses, shooting abortion providers or shooting people who don't share your belief- those are all outside norms, imo, and suggest some degree of fanaticism and/or mental illness.