(July 30, 2017 at 11:17 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(July 29, 2017 at 3:34 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: The same way that a psychologist deems someone, who has subjective evidence for his faith in killing other people, as delusional.
Subjective, personal faith is not a safeguard against delusion.
I didn't say it was a safeguard against delusion. I said i cant see how you can consider it an automatic indicator of a delusional person, when most of you admit that it is *possible* that there may be a god(s), there just hasn't been sufficient evidence to convince you. Obviously someone who kills people is not right in the head to begin with. But i dont see how it makes sense for you to say that being a theist, in and of itself, is an indicator of a delusional person when you admit there is possibility they could be right.
There could be a swarm of magic monkeys living in the dark side of the moon. It's possible in the sense that nobody can really discount it.
However, people who believe in the swarm of magic monkeys are delusional-- not because it's 100% impossible, but because I know they do not have access to any information that would lead them to that conclusion.
Delusion isn't about truth-- it's about how you arrive at a position that you think represents truth. It's about a dysfunction in one's ability to rationalize. And I'd argue that anyone with access to the internet and to modern science who still believes in a Biblical God definitely is not doing so on a rational basis.
