Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Right, but a bloke off his tits is going to spout some nonsense isn't he. Just happens he chose that mob.

There has to be something wrong with you if you believe that old cobblers and prepared to kill for it.

Nutters, the lot of them.
Yeah, funny how it "just happens" that all suicidal terrorists choose that mob.

Peter, at what point does belief tip into mental illness?

Is it the point at which their beliefs compel them to commit an atrocity? What about if you aren't prepared
to commit such acts yourself, but think others are justified in doing so based on the precise same beliefs ( as we know millions of Muslims do)?

Surely this would also meet your criteria of mental illness?

Millions upon millions of educated, high-functioning Muslims believe that Mohammad flew to the moon on a winged horse. In any context other than religion, if someone solemnly declared such a view I am pretty sure you would consider them mentally unhinged.

I'd be keen to know why you think the ability to sublimate your bat-**** mental beliefs makes you sane but acting on them does not.