Religion is a Delusion/Mental Illness

[Pyrrho]

Dystopia, just to clear up a couple of points.

The snake handlers are a rare group; here you can read about them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling

Here you can see them in action in a news story about them:






Speaking in tongues is discussed here, and it is far more common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia

You can see a little of it here in a news story:






As for Catholics who do not believe the official doctrines of the Catholic Church, you can, if you wish, join a church, pretending to believe, even if you are an atheist.  But in what sense are you a Catholic if you don't believe the doctrines of the Catholic Church?

And, of course, precisely what is going on will depend on the precise religion we are discussing, and if you regard people as being of a religion when they don't believe it, we would have to start looking at them individually to have a conversation of how crazy the person is.

But please do watch the videos, as they are interesting.