Is religion a mental illness? Or does it exploit mental illness?

Wonderful insights from (most) of the people in this thread! Thank for your thoughts =]

God created everything,
or everything created itself

What if everything IS God?

it would appear OP's mental illness has caused him to flee from certain facts
within his own thread

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest
his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:20)

Just curious.

I personally think it's a cleverly executed attack on people with a tendency towards paranoid delusion.

Religion gives people the tools for which to live, it also gave people a chance to get together once a week, and reaffirm those Christian values, and those neighborly ties. This was very important in our formalative years in coming together as a society, and a soft landing in the introduction of laws which formalized these values.

Are great thinkers religious? No, great thinkers must be free of such concepts as religion. Although their bodies must abide by the laws of man, and their social responsibilities, their minds must be free to wander, and to question, and to weigh, and to see from all perspectives.

We, on the lunatic fringe are the great thinkers of this age, and we are ridiculed the same way as the thinkers of old were. We come together, exchange knowledge, explore alternative ideologies, always questioning, always sharing, always changing. Just like the great thinkers, Pluto, Aristotle, Jesus.

So, is religion a mental illness? Is my post the rambling of an insane woman? Or a wise fool? You'll never know.

A complex creation must have a creator (Rom. 1:20).

That's why you never see a tornado rip through a junkyard and accidentally
assemble a fully fueled and functioning 747 jet airplane.

Since their must be a creator, it is most important that man find out who God is
(John 1:1) and what God wants (Eccl. 12:13).

God says man will know the Bible is the Word of the one, true living God
because it is the only Word that always tells the absolute truth about
everything (Isa. 42:9, 46:10, Deut. 4:35).

your religion that you accidentally evolved from a soup of water and rocks billions
of years ago is certainly a sick delusion...call it mental illness if you like

I love the way religitards always assume that anyone who is not religious is an evolutionist.
Are you people that fucking stupid?
Seriously, we don't all 'believe' in evolution. Most of us are open to a multitude of possibilities with regards the origins of humankind.

And even if some of us do 'believe' in evolution and that we evolved from some primordial sludge, we don't get on our knees and attempt having a personal relationship with it!

You muppet!
:-)

I love the way religitards always assume that anyone who is not religious is an evolutionist.
Are you people that fucking stupid?
Seriously, we don't all 'believe' in evolution. Most of us are open to a multitude of possibilities with regards the origins of humankind.

And even if some of us do 'believe' in evolution and that we evolved from some primordial sludge, we don't get on our knees and attempt having a personal relationship with it!

You muppet!
:-)

I love the way religitards always assume that anyone who is not religious is an evolutionist.
Are you people that fucking stupid?
Seriously, we don't all 'believe' in evolution. Most of us are open to a multitude of possibilities with regards the origins of humankind.

And even if some of us do 'believe' in evolution and that we evolved from some primordial sludge, we don't get on our knees and attempt having a personal relationship with it!

You muppet!
:-)

There are only 2 religions, and everyone has one.

Either God created everything, or everything created itself.

Being "open to a multitude of possibilities" doesn't change
the fact that there are only 2.

But you well know this, you wicked deceiver.

There are only 2 religions, and everyone has one.

Either God created everything, or everything created itself.

Being "open to a multitude of possibilities" doesn't change
the fact that there are only 2.

But you well know this, you wicked deceiver.

There are only 2 religions, and everyone has one.

Either God created everything, or everything created itself.

Being "open to a multitude of possibilities" doesn't change
the fact that there are only 2.

But you well know this, you wicked deceiver.

I don't think religion is a mental illness. That said, I do think people with mental illness will take it a bit too far. To me, those seem to be the radical fundamentalists of any religion.

everyone is a radical fundamentalist believer in their religion

as of now, you are a radical fundamental believer in yourself as a living god

You gave me a good laugh with that one. I am just a tiny soul in the grand scheme of things. How can one choose the "correct" religion? Perhaps each one has a piece, and the puzzle can only be completed when they all come together and agree on the larger picture? It would seem more could be achieved by working together than by arguing or warring over who is correct.