Telling someone their premise is wrong is threadshitting now?

[Bricker]

@Trinopus

But no SDMB atheist has (to my knowledge) said that the ordinary rank-and-file faithful are “insane.”

To add to your knowledge.

@Der_Trihs

@brocks

Are religious people crazy?

Yes. they are just powerful and numerous enough that few people are willing to admit it.But as you say, if they treated some other fiction like they do religion most people wouldn’t hesitate to call them crazy; and of course that’s exactly what happens with less popular or powerful delusions. It’s amusing watching people who believe in God act all superior about the irrationality of people who believe in UFOs or that the Moon landing was a hoax or Scientology, then turn right back to their own pet madness.

@Der_Trihs

Religion is insanity, and it and a sane society are fundamentally incompatible; in the long run either it dies, society dies, or sanity dies.