WHEN RELIGION CALLS EVIL OR SIN INSANE IT IS BEING ABLEIST AND BIGOTED AND CRAZY

Ableism is a form of bigotry that many are trying to root out today.  One form is that a person with a mental problem needs condescending help as if they cannot have their own voice. 

Ableism looks down on people who may suffer from psychosis.  It calls them names.  It undermines them.  One form of ableism is found in the Christian implication and not only implication, doctrine, that sinners or wrongdoers are insane and acting insane.

It is not clear though that everybody who is found to be out of touch with reality is really ill.  If they do no harm to themselves or anybody else it should not matter.

Religion finds mystery in human evil. Now finding something ethereal there is one thing.  But it may be trying to find mystery too. That would not be good and would smack of muddying waters.

Consider how if a person is evil, you are supposed to hate the evil and yet hate nothing in the person!

Then there is how religion says evil is insanity and the evil are insane and yet it holds the person responsible and fully culpable. It is contradictory then to blame anyone.

Religion says evil is boring and stupid and yet many people are excited by evil and look up to the wicked. If they are not in tune with reality then how well are they? Are they really evil?

Following those who say that God cannot create actual evil and that evil is not real and just a malfunction of good, arouses the feeling that evil is not in a person but in something breaking down.  That would be calling it pure insanity.

Faith says you can reliably intuit that there is at least some part of evil that is almost paranormal and supernatural. They intuit that through prayer for prayer is the ground of faith.  I would understand why you might suggest somebody could simply perceive that other-worldly element but for the person of faith that is a gift of God.

People do feel that evil is like a higher power. Why else would it fascinate those who like novels and horror movies and scary religions? Why else would the fear we feel include a fear of something in the evil, something in the eye of the storm that seems magical?  We intuit things that are not true and are expected by religion to validate that one.

These things are really contradictions. They are referred to as mysteries to lull you to that. If there is such mystery there then evil is as good as a power if not an actual power.

Back to evil and how it is declared to be madness.  It is suspected by many to involve madness. Those attitudes are repellently self-contradictory.  And they are hypocritical for evil cannot be both evil and an illness of the mind. 

Plus what practical use is there if you don't know where the insanity starts or finishes? 

Such notions are rancid insults to those who have lost their sanity. 

They arise from a lazy attempt at explanation. Therefore your attitude is not about being fair, loving, compassionate, responsible or anything. It is about giving a lazy answer, "It is madness" as if that explains.  You should say, "I don't understand". 

What if you understand more than you seem to?  You would be very manipulative and even slanderous.  You would pretend to be so good and sane that you cannot see how someone could do such a thing as evil. 

Calling evil mad means the person is not entitled to be listened to.  There is nothing to understand.  That will surely dehumanise.  It will harden you and the other person. 

If the person is sane, are you saying he has a supernatural side, maybe a soul, that is insane?  That would account for his getting assessed as sane by the psychiatric team.  Psychiatric medicine can only see the physical and the natural.  Religion would lead to thinking that because nothing is diagnosed, it doesn't mean he is normal. 

God-faith and religion would say a miracle is only the visible sign of something that is already there.  For example a supernatural God shows he is real by making a tumour go away at Lourdes.  The power, the supernatural is everywhere.  Such a thought would make people mental health hypochondriacs beyond the reach of any therapist or medicine.

Who are you to diagnose somebody evil as inane or to suspect them?  The way evil is thought about would suggest that if there is madness it is not in the evil person, the other.  Also, to accuse is to say it is only down to luck rather than the person that he didn't do much worse.  And if he is mad you will think he still could.  It is toxic.

Then there is the notion that you can let evil take over you forever.

Islam and Christianity preach that dying estranged from God takes you to Hell for conscious eternal punishment.  Hell is an optional belief in Judaism. Jesus like some Jews of his time said there would be weeping there and gnashing of teeth.  The person is blamed for forcing this punishment on themselves directly.  And once you make God let it happen to you by implication you are saying he should do that with others too.  This all adds up to a lot of evil and malice.

You would think that nobody would choose Hell. Some say that would depend on how bearable it is.  People can cling to life on this earth and weep and gnash their teeth all along.

Church teaching is that the loss of God and rejection of God that one experiences in Hell is terrible.   Nobody can understand why or how people could lock themselves in Hell but the Church and its Bible say that they do. It blames it on choosing to be insane.  Insane people are not responsible but theologians say that if you choose to be insane it is different.  [Make sense of that and you will have achieved the impossible.]

Most people would be disgusted at that suggestion for it means that God is justified in allowing the person to become mad by choice and lose free will for in Hell you cannot change. A God who really respected free will would give us more free will not less and ignore the choice. And nobody deserves to be punished while they are insane even if they have chosen it because it is not them anymore. They are not themselves. The Christians insult insane people to maintain the credibility of Jesus. 

If there is insanity here it is not the people in Hell who suffer it.

We conclude that faith in God and religion and in prayer are tied to harmful attitudes.  They invite them.  There must be no tolerance for one trying to marry evil and insanity together.  We have also identified a "it takes one to know one" element in a person who affirms that sin happens and that prayer is needed to combat it.  A God who endorses those persons is clearly not all-good or all-powerful.

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