Religion as a mental illness

[I_am_not_mafia]

Religion is a pernicious meme deliberately fashioned over centuries to disable critical thinking & demand unconditional obedience.

I see it like an infection myself. An infection with a parasitic meme that changes your behaviour and uses you to spread to other people.

When people talk about mental illness they think about the brain being imbalanced, and not necessarily caused by an infection. But excluding the brain, most illnesses are caused by infections.