(April 25, 2010 at 9:04 am)Logikos Wrote:(April 25, 2010 at 8:48 am)Saerules Wrote: Theistic belief is also bad. You can draw the same connections between people suffering delusions and people believing in gods.So are you saying that all people who believe in god(s) suffer from delusions?
Ever read 'The God Delusion'? I think that explains this quite well.
Yes.
Using "delusion" as:
Dictionary Wrote:delusion |diˈloō zh ən|
noun
an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day