Theism is literally childish

[I_am_not_mafia]

The difference between superstition and theism as defined by sociologists is more meaningful and less a term of art than the difference between theism and delusion as defined by psychologists.

I personally see it as ways of characterising different aspects of the same phenomenon. I have in the past likened religious belief as a behaviour altering parasite, a parasitic super organism, a drug addiction, a trick the mind uses to fool itself, a psychological crutch, a prepackaged template & support network for those unable to function as adults, and a mental illness. No one single comparison, no matter how apt, truly captures both the phenomenon in all its guises and the environments in which it operates in. I am describing in this thread how religious indoctrinate infantilises in very specific ways those receptive to it, but this is a description of how it operates rather than what it is.