Record few Americans believe in Biblical inerrancy.

[Jehanne]

Religious faith is a sickness, a mental illness.  I sincerely hope that you recover someday; I did.

Yeah, because you seem really happy and well-adjusted... 

I find atheism to be both depressing, yet liberating, at the same time. Yet your statement proves the point that religious belief is akin to drug abuse.

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Religious faith is a sickness, a mental illness.  I sincerely hope that you recover someday; I did.

Religious faith can be healthy or unhealthy. Religion faith  isn't a mental illness. (However, mental illness, on occasion, manifests itself as religious faith.)

There is a difference between being mentally ill and being just plain wrong.

Any system of thought that obfuscates one's sense of reality to the point of asserting the existence of invisible beings is a mental illness, even if such is the product of a cultural virus.