In todays Telegraph article: As scientists prove that faith can relieve pain, distinguished psychologist Dorothy Rowe examines the case for and against religion
When I went to work in psychiatric hospitals, I realised that criticising religion was not enough.
I needed to understand why religion becomes an integral part of a person’s life – and doesn’t cease to be so when such beliefs cause the person much pain and guilt, or lead him to commit murder, even to the point of genocide.Although they had not recognised it, my depressed or psychotic patients were struggling with the questions that theologians and philosophers had struggled with for thousands of years. “What will happen to me when I die?” “How can I be a good person?” “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
Source: Telegraph
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