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The fact that we put people in power who believe fairy tales over objective reality is legitimately terrifying.
Same bullshit going on with Kegsbreath right now. Fucking lunacy.
Its because, in the US, even though "nonreligious" was the fastest growing religious status for about 2 decades, the country and culture still heavily caters to religious zelots above all else.
I am pretty liberal but I think objective insanity should disqualify people from military command.
If a belief is widely shared within a culture or group, it is not classified as a delusion, even if it seems irrational from the outside.
So since believing in the end times is pretty normal in US cultural groups, then it is not insanity. So by your very own self-description as "pretty liberal", you are obliged to not disqualify people like Bush II from having access to the nuclear suitcase...
Of course. Anyone who honestly believes in supernatural religions is insane. I said I was pretty liberal, not a fuckin Democrat.
Not according to the clinical definition of insanity!
Because the clinical community is infested with insane people who believe in sky fairies. Use your mind instead appealing to the authority of quack hacks that believe faith in obviously false things isn't insane.