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Originally posted by J a y
Having extremist religious ideologies does not make you a mentally ill person.
Why did I know someone would not comprehend what I said.
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Having been raised Catholic and attended a Catholic school (I am no longer Catholic and my mom doesn't follow the religion rigidly), I can wholly attest to this.
I know comparing Catholicism to ISIS seems really off-base, but there are Catholics who hold an extremist view of their religion in the same way ISIS does with Islam. All you need is a doctrine and people with firm beliefs in that doctrine to start doing some really messed up ****.
ISIS members don't suffer from mental illnesses. They hold beliefs that motivate their crimes, but their crimes are committed in pure understanding of what they aim to do as well as the effect it will have on others. It is not just some lone wolf acting from a place of brain-inflicted delusion, these are people who willfully and sanely follow their desires to violently spread their "message".