(February 26, 2018 at 8:54 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Why do religious beliefs get a free pass? So if you're convinced Elvis Presley is still alive, you're delusional but if you think Jesus of Nazareth is still alive and can hear/answer your prayers, you're just a Christian. Why the double standard?
(February 27, 2018 at 4:59 pm)SteveII Wrote: There is no "incontrovertible evidence or proof against" religion. There is only subjectively-measured claims by a minority of the population of a lack of proof. These are not the same things.
If you say so, but it doesn't matter, since that's not why religious belief isn't included as a delusion anyway.
The solitary reason is that religious thinking and behavior is not, in and of itself, disordered.
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