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*Reykyavik, Iceland – This small island country in the North Atlantic is home to many controversies. The country’s parliament voted in 2017 to place mental health warnings on all Bibles. In that same year, the nation took another secular step forward by banning American televangelists. Iceland is now declaring all religions to be psychological disorders.
The Alþingi (the nation’s parliament) voted overwhelmingly in favor of the statute 60-3. The three politicians who voted against the decree reportedly believed the measure didn’t go far enough. “We don’t want to end up like the United States or Saudi Arabia, do we?” one anonymous representative mused.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Andrew Kanard not only immediately signed the decree but is giving a full-throated defense of why religion is a psychological disorder:
A cursory look at any of the common definitions of mental illness reveals that religion is, in fact, the most common malady of them all. Look at any recent convert. It’s plain to friends and family the poor soul in question is suffering from emotional disturbances and impaired functioning.
Have you been to the Creation Museum in the United States? If that place isn’t a hot bed for disordered thinking common to those inflicted with schitzophrenia, I don’t know what is.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/laughingindisbelief/2020/01/iceland-declares-all-religions-are-mental-disorders/

Thunderbeast
(3,598 posts)Be careful out there!
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(54,566 posts)captain queeg
(11,780 posts)Not that I really have anything against religion, but the evangelicals don’t fit my definition of religion. Which should be a private personal belief system.
alittlelark
(18,951 posts)
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,131 posts)I was briefly encouraged, but it's satire.
https://fullfact.org/online/iceland-religions-mental-disorders-satire/
central scrutinizer
(12,441 posts)But there is a Phallus Museum
https://phallus.is/en/
3Hotdogs
(13,870 posts)to spread The Word.
He got nowhere with it. People responded, We don't need religion.
A video of is visit was posted on D.U.
CatLady78
(1,041 posts)I have disliked all forms of religion for as long as I can remember.....probably because it was never forced on me. Having no real religious indoctrination, as a child I immediately perceived a conflict between religion and science (which I liked).
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)...it's more like
But in truth, it is ironic that while the claim is labeled as 'untrue', the point the claim makes describes reality almost perfectly.