(August 31, 2018 at 10:11 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I don't think most of us are stating that the religious delusion being discussed are clinical/medical. There are all types of delusions (mostly fantasy) that don't meet the "clinical" criteria.
So religious people are not crazy, they just believe in crazy stuff.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
