(December 21, 2017 at 3:42 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Any system of thought that obsfricates 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.
"Cultural" being the operative word. The Greeks believed there were gods who lived on Mount Olympus, not because they were sick, but because they were wrong. By your rationale, every member of a stone age Amazonian tribe is sick because they believe in the gods and spirits of the forest. They're not sick. They're wrong.