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  1. In religious teachings, the moral assessment of behavior is based on the fact of motivation for the act. That is, a person did good or evil because he wanted to do it, or simply because it happened because of external reasons. Whether it's brain health, or other things that are external to the moral foundation. The word mentally ill is approximate from the point of view of religions. It does not mean a disease of the soul, since the soul is an unearthly phenomenon, and the disease is earthly. It means a brain disease that affects behavior. If this disease affected the motive of the act, it is logical not to evaluate the morality of this act. That is, the behavior of people who are limited in health is evaluated in the same way as healthy people: if they do good, then they get the corresponding consequences.

  2. Poor (in God) one of the meanings is maloumie, madness, or foolishness, foolishness (for reference: in addition, the meanings are more widespread – beggar, poor, meager)

    Relatively non-aggressive and safe were often called holy fools, aggressive possessed-the demon moved in, possessed. Whether the possessed person will go to heaven, no one knows. Obsession with sin is not considered – there is a film I recommend “the monk and the demon” funny.�

    Excerpt from Wikipedia:

    One of the reasons for the feat of foolishness is considered to be the sermons of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament:

    “We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are in glory, but we are in dishonor. Even to this day we endure hunger and thirst, nakedness and beatings, and wander and work with our own hands. They curse us, and we bless them; they persecute us, and we suffer them… ” (1 Corinthians 4: 10)
    “Hath not God turned the wisdom of this world into folly?” (1 Corinthians 1: 20)
    “No one deceives himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that to be wise” (1 cor. 3:18)
    “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God.” (1 cor. 3:19)
    “…the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness” (1 cor. 1:18)
    “…It pleased God through the foolishness of his preaching to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1: 21).
    “…we preach Christ crucified… madness to the Greeks” (1 Corinthians 1: 23)
    “…for the unwise things of God are wiser than men ” (1 Corinthians 1: 25)
    St. Anthony in the early centuries of Christianity said: “The time is coming when people will go mad, and if they see someone who is not mad, they will rise up against him and say,' You are mad, ' because he is not like them.”

    According to St. Athanasius of Alexandria:

    People call clever those who know how to buy and sell, conduct business and take from their neighbor, oppress and usurp, make two obols out of one obol, but God considers such people stupid, unreasonable and sinful. God wants people to become stupid in earthly matters and smart in heavenly ones. We call intelligent someone who knows how to do God's will.

  3. If we rely on the generally accepted concepts that people go to hell for their sins, and to heaven for good deeds, then some mental deviations will not come out with sin, they are only brain deviations. But if a person has sinned in a state of passion , then this is considered a sin and accordingly it is clear on which side the scales are tilted in this case

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