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anon wrote
AT THIS JUNCTURE, anyone still thinks that religious believers are equated with psychotics?
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Well, the more you post, and the more I'm led to research this subject, then I'd have to say, yes, I do think that religious believers are suffering from a form of psychosis. The layman's definition fits quite well:
any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted. - Princeton University Wordnet
If someone believes in talking animals, corporeal reanimation, a young Earth, global inundation, animal sacrifice, and a whole host of other concepts not aligned with reality, and giving their money to Creflo Dollar, then yes, I guess they are psychotic. I would also surmise that the deeper they are into these detached beliefs, then the deeper their psychosis.