Someone who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology – we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.

This is a view that has come up more than a few times in discussions about ex-gay issues.  At what point, if at all, could faith be labeled a mental illness?  Where do we draw that line?

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