I would have to say it is both because people who share common beliefs no matter what those beliefs are, are less likely to kill each other generally speaking.
So, I wonder if the most extreme people of every religion realize how they are destroying all religions worldwide through their viewpoints? Because this is the reaction I get from young people all over the world more and more throughout the years.
I used to have a view that, "There are no atheists in Foxholes!" and this is also true to some degree as well. In other words when you think you are going to die or are on a battlefield with your guts hanging out or are watching your best friends guts hanging out then you likely are going to turn to God for help because the other alternative might be temporary or permanent insanity.
So, my point of view might be that people who reject God and religion in general can do so effectively mostly because they never have had to face death alone or alone on a battlefield. No one has explained to me how people who don't believe in something keep from driving their car off a cliff or ending their lives in various ways without something more permanent to believe in.
It is my present belief that many of these so called atheists or agnostics may self destruct either psychologically or physically or both when something serious happens in their lives that there is no way to deal with in any other way. However, this also may be why mood altering drugs are so popular even when they rewire a human brain to be no longer human (at least in the way people have been historically for thousands of years).
So, my question might be, "Is it better to believe in a God whether there is one or not or is it better to modify (possibly permanently) the ways human brains function, to where humans aren't really humans anymore?
The following article outlines the same problems I see better than most do:
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The drugs you take: Mood altering drugs
Photo: Anti depressents from courtesy of Maximized Living.com
There are drugs being prescribed that have been proven to cause ill-health and death. People are taking drugs for systemic conditions like pain and inflammation with only a subjective diagnosis.
Then there are the mood altering prescribed medications.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the official manual listing psychiatric disorders. But many times by perceiving ordinary life experiences as certifiable mental illness, the patient becomes treatable by psychotropic drugs and billable through insurance companies. (Friedman, NEJM, May 17, 2012).
“In nearly 50 years of prescribing anti-depressants the results are all to frequently the same - drug addiction, mental impairment, irrational and violent behavior, panic attacks, suicide, and death.” – IMS Health National Prescription Audit PLUS. Pharmaceutical companies sell more than $16 billion in anti-psychotic drugs every year.
Many of these anti-psychotic drugs are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s). These drugs prevent the body from breaking down Serotonin. This notion came about from initially believing that depression was caused by too little of the neurotransmitter serotonin. At first this helped and many people who were suffering from stress, insomnia, and mild depression began taking serotonin-enhancing drugs like Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft. Extensive research demonstrates that serotonin enhancement for depression is erroneous.
A 2010 study in Journal of American Medical Association found that anti-depressants are basically useless for the vast majority of people who take them. While researchers found no significant difference between anti-depressants drugs and placebos they find extreme differences in side effects.
Here are some facts found by research about SSRI’s:
- People who use Prozac and other SSRI drugs are five times as likely to commit suicide than if they took no medication at all.
- Women who take these drugs are more than 7 times as likely to develop breast cancer.
- These drugs can cause helplessness, apathy, aggression, and sedation.
- They can worsen Parkinson’s Disease.
- Serotonin elevating drugs are prescribed for stress related emotional conditions, yet the evidence is that serotonin is already too high in people suffering from emotional stress. This is because stress liberates free fatty acids from storage, which, in turn, increases the uptake of tryptophan into the brain, increasing the formation of serotonin.
- Serotonin is like estrogen in its association with aggression. A record of violence has clearly been associated with above average blood serotonin levels. Note that darkness stimulates both aggression and eating.
Paranoia, hallucinations, and violent behavior are hallmark side effects of SSRI’s. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights testified before the FDA in 1991 that psychotropic drugs are a contributing cause of adverse and dangerous mental instability, sometimes causing victims to commit suicide and/or murder.
The use of dangerous medications is taking a toll on societies around the world. Anti-depressant drugs are turning people into muddled, brain-addled addicts incapable of controlling their own emotions and behavior. These drugs are useless and physiologically dangerous.
We cannot condone the poisoning of the masses for big pharmaceutical profit.
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