RE: Question For Fellow Atheists...
January 11, 2017 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2017 at 12:20 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(January 11, 2017 at 10:50 am)Autolite Wrote: Well when I say 'messed-up', I'm talking about the mental illness of being delusional. IIRC, the medical definition of a delusion is " an unsubstantiated irrational belief not shared within one's community". Now of course religion does not meet the medical definition of 'delusion' because it is a 'shared' belief.
However, does anyone here disagree with this definition. Does anyone claim that being delusional is not a mental illness? Do we all agree that there are in fact people who are delusional???
Per the medical definition of "delusional" you stated above, it is not. Unless you want to change that definition. You seem precisely like the type of person who thinks himself big enough to go around changing the definition of medical terms so that you can diagnose everyone who is unlike you as being mentally ill. Get over yourself.
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