Do Atheists Think All Religious People are Delusional?
Delusional is a very strong word, and it carries a lot of negative emotion. I don’t much care for it to be used in this context myself. When an atheist calls you delusional, they don’t think you are crazy in the same way as someone who is confined to the mental ward at the hospital, locked in a room with rubber walls, believes he is Abraham Lincoln, and yells at the voices in his head to free the slaves. But try to see things from the atheist’s perspective for a moment. First, you have an imaginary friend. You believe he is with you all the time, following you everywhere, watching you at all times. You believe that you talk to this friend on a regular basis… and that he often talks back. Maybe it’s in words, or maybe it is in feelings or thoughts or ideas that enter your head, but you believe you are in fact holding a conversation of sorts with this person. Occasionally things happen in your life that you don’t entirely understand, and you often attribute them to actions taken by your
