Religion
In reply to the discussion: Is science a religion? [View all]Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)are by citing their lack of scientific proof".
Well no I really don't think anyone has made that claim with respect to the delusional nature of religiosity. Instead the claim that has been made is quite different: that religious beliefs are frequently indistinguishable from delusional beliefs, and that further the psychiatric literature, for example the DSM, wrestles with this exact same problem and does not produce convincing distinctions other than the "critical mass of believers" distinction.
The debate here over religion and science is generally about claims that the two are not in conflict, which claim is demonstrably false, or the claim that science is a belief system just like religion, specifically that science, like religion, "just makes shit up". For example, just recently it was asserted that:
And both institutions are in the habit of making shit up when they don't have full explanations
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