Sometimes, it really is hard to tell faith from a mental illness

By PZ MYERS - PHARYNGULA
Added: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:00:00 UTC

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This is really hard to watch: it's a young woman giving the benediction at the graduation ceremony at Midwestern State University, in Texas, and she's so sucked up into her religious fervor that she starts shaking, I catch a hint of speaking in tongues, and finally ends up fainting on the stage.

If it were anything other than religion she was trying to push up there, we'd be getting that poor woman in for psychiatric help.

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