I'm just saying that they could because back in their times, science was not strong and especially psychological disorders were not scientifically known. I mean nowadays if someone said they are talking to God they would go to a mental institution! Ordinary people  would certainly know that they were crazy and no one would believe them.
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What a good question! Yes I beleive that is a valid thought. nowadays they wouldn't have locked them up though, they were not dangerous, they would have medicated the lord right out of them. No one beleived them hardly and I wonder how it stuck after so many years. but that is history and who really knows except who really was there.
246610
An interesting point you make, and it is, indeed, true. During the scientific revolution, most of the scientists that participated in it were Christians. Isaac Newton, for example, had believed that his discoveries concerning light and universal gravitation had to do with God. Many scientists were Christians, and did not perceive science as simply an endeavour in which one attempts to legitimately answer a question. Many of these scientists were those who had viewed science as a way of understanding the mind of God. It was thought by many of these prominent scientists (Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin, and many others) that, if one were to better understand the universe through science, they could see God in all creations and discoveries. In fact, during the scientific revolution, one scientist said that "Science is thinking God's thought's after him." This quote really embodies the basic reason for scientists' devotion to science during the revolution. God was the driving force for many of the scientists, along with interest and the spirit of inquiry.
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Simple people are afraid of what they don't know and don't understand. Isn't it so much easier to go to church and swallow down all that brainwashing that they feed them? \nOf course it is - it doesn't require thinking with their own heads, it doesn't require reading and learning and researching and making mistakes and developing themselves...\nThey just get taught a pretty story and told it is the only truth. What an ideal world, isn't it?! Too bad it's ot that simple. \n\nPeople have been deceived and brainwashed through centuries and millenia. We can't expect them to suddenly start thinking. Organised forms of religion have caused much too much damage by burning everyone who dared to ponder another side of truth...
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He couldn't have been married and had children without knowledge to the public. People like to use the 'possible' as a way of arguing their own disbelief. They take an unproven concept and try to get Christians to justify their beliefs based on a non_believers inability to accept that they themselves have proved nothing.
267510
"God" didn't step out of the clouds, sit down with some vellum and quill and write that, sorry. Some regular ol' man who claimed "God" spoke to him did.\n\nWhen this happens nowadays, the person in question is usually placed under psychiatric care.
570643
It's possible. We may never know for sure. If they were using symbolism and metaphor for all of the things you suggest, it sure would have been nice if they'd told some body!
613710
Interesting you should ask that.There was a study not too long ago that determined that if a person 'had orders' from a person perceived as a higher up, they would inflict a substantial amount of pain on another human being.It's also human nature to want to remove those that are perceived as different.Culling the herd, as it were.Modern technology just enables us to 'cull the herd' more efficiently.I think that one way towards regaining some semblance of sanity is to educate a person as thoroughly as possible, and teach them that what works for 1 person might not work for another, but they are entitled to a basic level of respect by virtue of being a human.
99637
It depends on the sect.  Some still don't believe it and chalk it up to demonic possession.  But most see it for what it is, an illness that needs proper treatment.
637409
I agree.\nIf i said to all my class mates that there was white teapot orbiting the sun, they would think i was a derranged phsycopath, but if when you were born your parents and nearly everybody you knew said there was a white teapot orbiting the sun you would be mad NOT to believe it. Therefore if people would think i was crazy if i said there was such thing as god without any evidence or reason to say so, but if it was passed down you would be inclined to believe it unless you have a strong mind of your own and a brain! \nps: i'm fourteen years old and i probably have a higher i.q than most of you fools answering this question.\nhope i helped you!
563259
No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.
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If they believed others who reject their fantasy actually knew more about it and its history than they do, it would be a serious blow to their faith, so they simply assume no-one else understands.  Nevermind that half the atheists in the west were once Christians mired deep into the cult.
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So funny that you just posted this, my boss and I had the same conversation just yesterday. He's a well read, well spoken man, very intelligent. He THINKS THE SAME THING! He said we could eliminate most mental illness with the power of prayer, my jaw totally dropped! He doesn't believe in meds either......crazy, but true! So, I guess your friend is not alone in this insane (pardon the pun) thought process!
253735
Mental deficient minds of crazy people.
528266
The real reason is lack of knowledge. When what you know is rooted in research and factual data, it's hard to get upset over information. But so much of what we know in this country is fantasy or make believe, we don't like anyone challenging beliefs that may not be rooted in reality but we've invested so much of our lives in.\n \nTake religion for instances. I'm not saying that Christ didn't exist, but I just think some of the stories (all of which were told by people who didn't have as much knowledge about the world they lived in as we do today) are far fetched and truly of fantasy. For instance, let's look at heaven. It's described as the land of milk and honey and the streets are paved with gold. Well we could actually create that place right here on earth now. And if you are in a spiritual form, what do you care about milk, honey, or gold? I think the stories were limited to our imagination back then and we've advanced so far technologically now, the heaven of old would bore most of us today.\n\nIf people would look at religion and politics objectively and not emotionally, people wouldn't be so sensitive over these issues. We confused knowing with believing which may explain why people are so sensitive today.
317389
Part of the problem is that certain forms of mental disease produce hallucinations, and aliens are among the things these people hallucinate.  I have seen recurrent visits by aliens stopped by proper medication...\n\nPeople tend to assume that if some of the insane see aliens, then all who see aliens are insane.  That is not, however, as yet proven to be true.\n\nAlthough I'm most definitely an earthling, I'm often accused of being an alien...  Does that count????
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LOL  Yeah, let's all just quit thinking, and god will take care of everything, huh? Reminds me of those super religious people that wouldn't even take their kids to the doctor, because they were going to pray for a miracle. Of course the child died from complications. \n\nIt's funny how religious people will only count on the science that they need, but refute the science that disagrees with their myth.
192045
because people are tend to be scared of the unknown and they have no clue what to expect from the mentally ill or challenged there for their only response can and will be coldness and callousness.that is to protect them selves.