When is a Religious Belief Delusional?

[downbeatplumb]

I do not consider the practice of prayer, in and of itself, evidence of delusion. The idea that there is a level of reality deeper (or higher depending on your perspective) and more fundamental that what is currently known does not seem on its face to be irrational. After that, it is more a difference of degree than of kind by which we evaluate its reasonableness.

To think there may be a deeper level of reality is not delusional. To act as though there is, is.