Believing in Deities is a Form of Psychosis

[Little Rik]

It is to my belief, and observation, that having actual faith in any sort of deity from religious texts or folklore is a form of psychosis. 

What is psychosis? For those who don't know, psychosis is defined as a severe mental illness where in someone has lost touch with external reality. In other words, they believe in things that simply aren't real. And applying the facts to the topic of religion, with our current era's knowledge: it is indeed a FORM of psychosis. 

Now before you lose yourself, I'd like to state something. Religion, is barely often truly believed in. I tried to be a Christian once, and no matter how much I tried I could not believe in something that was utterly nonexistent and lose my touch with reality. 

People who do choose to be truly faithful and believe in such deities, are by, factual terms in a state of psychosis. With our current worldly knowledge, the facts stand true: gods and deities are not real. The facts are what we must go by in this debate, beliefs and faith, is by psychosis alone. While being mentally ill with psychosis has different effects, there have been many studies to show that religion in general is psychologically damaging.

Furthermore, many people in our history have believed in deities, so were all of them affected by psychosis? Firstly, I'd like to re-define the meaning behind a mental disorder. A mental disorder is simply a classification for a grouping of conditions to make understanding HUMAN ABNORMALITIES better. In it's primitive state, mental disorders are obsolete. There is no BIOLOGICAL condition, but rather an abnormality of the mind, at least I think. So technically they weren't 'ill', but just mentally abnormal in OUR PERSPECTIVE TIME. However then again psychosis of this form could've been perfectly normal at that time.

Then there are people who are like me, who tried their hardest to believe but couldn't due to the facts. With these people, I think they were merely pretending with religion in order to avoid persecution and whatnot. So with all of that stated, what are you thoughts?

Some questions to think on;

• Is it ethical to consider truly religious people mentally ill with psychosis?
  
• Should religion be eliminated from society to prevent psychological damage?
  
• Do you know anyone who went insane over God?
  
• Any more comments?
  

It sound like you fall in the corral of dogmas.

Dogma number one.
Not all those who believe in God follow a religion.

Dogma number two.
Nobody ever gave any evidence that God does not exist so your statement that God doesn't exist fall in the corral of dogmas.

Dogma number three.
It is true that some people go insane over their religion but the great majority does not so to think that religions send people insane is a dogma.
Religions are full of dogmas but very few people take these dogmas very seriously.
They say that the pope is infallible but almost nobody believe in that story and so in most of what religions say.

Please stop carry on with these statement void of any evidence before you yourself develop psychosis.