Quote - Occasionally, though I do fall prey and get sucked into threads like this one. It's not the debate which I find offensive as much as it is the attitude of the people  who bandy about words like "fantasy" and "delusions", indicating that the someone is of an inferior intelligence for holding such beliefs. I choose to leave now before someone says something for which I probably won't be able to restrain my answer.

Have fun, keep it civil and stop the baiting.

 

Well I guess you probably won't read this then, but it's simply a matter of calling it what it is, or at least what it seems.

A psychologist would say a schizophrenic person is suffering from delusions, and with good cause. However, to the schizophrenic, his delusions can be very very real. To him they are completely real and believable, especially if he's not in treatment and trying to make a conscious effort to tell himself they're not real.

But I guess when it comes to God it's a different story? In spite of the fact that there's no evidence whatsoever that God exists, people still hear him, see him, experience him, worship him , talk to him, kill for him, give him money... and the list goes on and on.

In spite of the fact that there's no evidence whatsoever that God exists, and an enormous amount of reason to believe that God doesn't exist, people dedicate their lives to serving him because to them he is very real

How is this any different from the schizophrenic's delusions?

 

I'm not trying to be offensive, but in a discussion such as this, there are some things that have to be said straight up because that's the only way to make the point.

 

People who believe in God are certainly not of lower intelligence by the way, and many are of the highest intelligence, so don't think for a minute I'm implying that they're not as smart as non-believers.

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