Why are religious people so delusional?

[Anonymous]

[Marcuslrh]

With religion probably because they are mostly brainwashed into it from birth not having the chance to experience life and create there own beliefs they are forced into blindly believing in other experiences which could explain the delusional tendency

[strateguy632]

forced? not since the enlightenment. and kids age 7 stop believing santa buy despite that still believe god.
even now with freedom, over 70% of Americans are christian.

[Marcuslrh]

No they are told to believe in god same with Santa only the whole family is pushing the narrative of the Christian god by the time these 7 year olds are adults if they have any sense of free thinking left by then they will move away from it, 70% will only get less and less I'm sure the more people grow and start to make there own choices and have there own enlightening experiences why would they continue to follow in the believes of others experiences? when they can have there only plus with all the ancient texts revealed the original story's that the bible used and made there own lol it's not gonna be going up.

[strateguy632]

learn the word, delusion is something impossible but even dawkins author of delusion admitted in same book god possible so not delusion. he would need to claim impossible but didn't.

[Lara_Croft]

Replace the 'are religious people ' with 'am I'

[AngryCarl2]

That's a pretty big question. Broadly speaking I think it's because reality isn't agreeable to them, so rather than deal with it, they make shit up. Same as Trump supporters.

[strateguy632]

For example, in what is reality not agreeable to them?

[AngryCarl2]

@strateguy632 You die, you turn to dust. No one cares.

[jshm2]

Because they don't want to end up a judgmental dumbass like you.

[genericname85]

because delusion is the very base of faith.

[gorydetails]

why are you trolling?

[jahaims]

It's how they cope with reality

[Byuser]

For example, in what