RE: Question For Fellow Atheists...
January 12, 2017 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 12, 2017 at 8:23 am by Jesster.)
(January 11, 2017 at 10:52 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Seems like a lot of people feel comfortable comparing belief in fairies with the faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. How many of you would publicly call Dr
King delusional?
Delusional? Yeah, I can go with that under some definitions. I would not call him mentally ill, though. "Delusional" just means you have false or unrealistic beliefs. That can be attributed to mental illness, but not always, and I am definitely not one of the people here calling believers mentally ill.
As far as MLK Jr. goes, a person can have many things right in life and still be very much wrong about everything else. This is where I would maintain the comparison of God and the Tooth Fairy (or even other fairies).