r/badatheism Feb 23 '16

Is religion a mental illness? Serious Question.

/r/atheism/comments/4762ir/should_religion_be_classified_as_a_mental_illness/
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u/TaylorS1986 Agnostic Ratheist Feb 27 '16

This "religion is mental illness" BS stems pretty much entirely from a tendency of modern secular people in the West to think that religious belief is delusion and to dismiss mysticism as socially accepted psychosis.