When is a Religious Belief Delusional?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Any notion of fairness already presupposes some measure existential equality. You're arguing in circles. Let's step further back. I believe there are moral facts. Are those delusions?

You could always be mistaken in your identification of the morals you identify as facts.  Thinking they are facts isn't in and of itself delusional, whether or not I choose to conceptualize morality in that way.

Do you think people who don't conceptualize morality as you do are delusional?

Not at all. I see only a difference of opinion. On this issue calling one’s own belief rational and the other delusional is nothing but offensive and arrogant hand-waving. My point is this. Beliefs formed from applying reason to common experience do not qualify as delusions. This applies to the existence of God as equally as it does to moral facts.

For example, to we all know that there are upstanding and good people. And although none of them are good in the same way; nevertheless, there seems to be an overarching concept of human goodness that unites them all. From there it is not too difficult to derive an overarching concept of goodness shared by both humans and non-human species. And from there it is not too difficult to conclude that there something like ‘The Good’ in which all good things participate and that this transcendent Good is real, in some ways perhaps more real than everyday reality.

This is by no means a clear-cut derivation but it was the conclusion made by Plato and adopted by many later pagan and Christian philosophers who call this God. They may indeed be mistaken. Most AF member seem to attribute the moral sense to some combination of animal instinct and social pragmatism. This is merely a difference of opinion between Plato. Plotinus, and Aquinas, among others and AF members. I see no justification for piling derision on people who hold opinions similar to some of the greatest thinkers of the past.