Is faith a Mental Disease?

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I can't have any sympathy for a guy who is such a complete imbecile that he would sign all of the papers over before he got his money.

I also wouldn't have any sympathy if the used car dealer was found in an alley with a cut throat soon.

From my understanding it seemed the guy really trusted the dealer as if good business friends and even visited each other. He had faith in the guy. I can imagine him being furious and deeply disappointed.

That's why I ask the question; Do faith and trust go together with stupidity?

Even in my own life I was very religious when I was young. If I look back I can only see that faith caused more damage than help with anything at all.

Practically it mostly takes a few seconds longer to really think things through, I mean to make sure rather than just blindly believing things. Other things take time and work on your nerves. Not all is under our direct control all the time.

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Define mental disease first.

Some people have fantasy prone personalities. Those people I think are in more danger. Others don't, but have faith anyway. Nothing's black and white.

Defining mental disease is a job for the psychologists etc. but its believed that many famous psychologists defined religious faith as a sickness or something like that. Then again atheist psychologists differ radically from their believing brothers in crime so to speak.

It's a settled certainty that robbing a bank is unacceptable. That's quite black and white.

I like the idea that faith is an excuse not to think.