Delusion?

[Angrboda]

Just a quick dash off on a point I missed in your earlier remark. Yes, certainly, groups of religious believers make an accommodating environment for people with certain delusions (messianic comes to mind, e.g. Jim Jones, Kim Jong-Il, David Koresh, Jesus), but that the two coincide doesn't indicate any causal relationship, nor that religious belief can "flower" into delusion, though in the colloquial sense, sure, ungrounded beliefs can take root and grow into fully formed delusions, but again, the question of pathology is key.

It's well known that psychopathic personalities / anti-social personalities are over-represented among the upper levels of business (the psychiatric nomenclature is not well defined and is under discussion and review within the field). Yet to suggest that people with MBAs or degrees in economics are at risk of becoming psychopathic is surely nonsense of the first order.