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AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
Tue Apr 29, 2014, 06:02 PM Apr 2014

All right, I went back and found the thread.

Had to take someone off ignore to find it, hope that satisfies my claim earlier of NOT having a history of equating delusion, credulity, religious faith, etc, with mental health issues:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218113909#post18
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218114774#post96
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218114774#post114
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=107098

I have been accused of equating the two, especially viciously in that last link there, when I actually used the word 'credulous', not 'delusional'. So, I hope that explains why I strongly reacted to your assertion that I was giving cover to that behavior. I don't. Mental illness is a thing. Religious faith is a totally different thing. When I call a religious belief a 'delusion', I am not calling the person that holds it, mentally deficient.

What I do think of faith, is perhaps not flattering, but I do not think of it a mental illness.

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