Religious Belief = Mental Illness: A More Venomous Response

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274. So you are still cherry-picking

to support your argument.

Some psychologists are not even the majority. The consensus is that psychology/psychiatry does not equate religion and mental illness.

I really don't understand the illogic here. Either you accept psychology as a science that has relevance for determining mental illness or not.

If you do not, then mental illness does not exist outside of how you subjectively define it. You would be decidedly in the minority, and your opinions, which you are entitled to, would still be useless and inconsequential.

If you do accept it, then why are you not accepting the consensus? As an atheist, you have expressed that science is important. There is scientific consensus, at least right now, that no, religion is not equatable to a mental illness. Do you find it acceptable that there is scientists that deny evolution or climate change?

And yes, while you are entitled to your opinion on maladaptive behavior, if it contradicts the psychological consensus, I am sorry but who cares what you think. It is just an ill-informed opinion and nothing more. You are not in the field. You are nobody - just anonymous person on the internet pushing their own ideas as important whether they are or not.

Finally, who determines whether someone's getting upset is for stupid or I presume the opposite would be smart reasons? You are of course entitled to your opinion once more, and generally speaking, if during a debate there is a lot of rude and insulting communication, the civil argument is generally considered quite done.

Why should any one want to debate you or hear your opinion on this subject, if you simply believe it OK to be insulting to make your point?