Delusion?

[Angrboda]

(For the record, my ex-wife was a bitch too, and I could crack jokes about her being a she-demon, but that doesn't actually make her a demon, does it? It's flowery langauge. Not exactly equivalent.)

That wasn't my point, though I see how you were misled by my language. I wasn't implying that female demons were being imagined, I was pointing out how massive the errors in reasoning can become as a result of a simple psychological process -- in this case, that of cognitive dissonance -- being iteratively applied towards the same goal (justifying one's feelings and actions in a relationship). It's akin to evolution, wherein distortions in our thinking (mutations) are repeatedly selected for a specific adaptive quality (reinforcing our desired perceptions of ourselves). Just as evolution can create incredibly complex and powerful animals, the psychology of the human animal can evolve monsters. (And that's just at the personal level; I haven't scratched the surface of social processes and the nature of discourse.)

But we don't necessarily have to agree to disagree. You simply have to give me some evidence that religious or theistic thinking is delusional as psychiatrists define delusion, as a systematic distortion of thinking along specific dimensions that does not occur in thinking not related to the delusion.

You have, afaik, provided no evidence that this is the case. Simply declaring it to be a fact, or arguing folk psychologism is insufficient. I may have paid insufficient attention earlier, so if you have given such evidence, please link me to it. I will warn you in advance though, that as a person with schizo-affective disorder, I have suffered delusions for over 40 years, so I have something of an inside track.