RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
August 31, 2018 at 11:45 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 11:52 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 31, 2018 at 11:16 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: In real life, if I say someone is delusional, I mean they are mentally I'll.
Sure, I get that..I just don't use it the same way. When I point out that some belief is delusional I'm being equally precise..I'm just not commenting as a clinical diagnostician, mostly because I'm not.
Theres a noticeable difference between being wrong, deluded, and ill.
As I pointed out in the thread that spawned this one. I was wrong about how much I owed the electricians. If, after he showed me the bill and I looked at my bank account I persisted..I would be deluded...if, after being shown the bill and my account balance I persisted because I was certain that he was a lizard person out to destroy and reject everything good in the world..I would be ill.
In my way of using the term, there are some believers who are simply wrong. Theres a significant portion who are deluded, and some portion of that fraction toes the line to the next category....the subset of people who are deeply fucked up.
I also note that some people who are simply deluded masquerade as ill because of their insistence on using churchspeak - that doesn't mean what it says or say what it means..they don't actually believe it as stated. It's on them if they put in the work to convince people that they've long since taken the bus to crazytown.
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