Posted: Mar 08, 2010 6:27 am
xrayzed wrote:
I don't believe that the greeks, or the aztecs beliefs in their deities, like Dionysus, or Tezcatlipoca, are delusional beliefs. I may find what these religious narratives and mythologies claim about reality to be false, but not delusional.
What about people who believed these gods spoke to them or through them?
Well, other then cases of individuals suffering from mental illness the answer is no, they are not delusional beliefs. Our silly atheist has trouble understanding the difference between the mentally sick individual who hears voices in their head, and what commonly being said when a believer says that "god led him to this decision", or that "this is not what god wants him to do".
These statement are more akin to someone who after some contemplation believes that the decision he is making is the right one, or a person saying he has a good feeling about this. Believing that these individuals here voices in their head like mentally sick individuals do, is the delusional beliefs that atheist like to peddle, but are dimwitted assessments of reality.