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My problem with faith is that it could be applied to anything. I can have faith in the existence of vampires, talking trees, mystical rocks, ad nauseam. Does it mean that these things exist in reality? Of course not. The thought process that results in faith is little more than an emotional reaction or an exercise in imagination.Take faith far enough and it becomes psychosis. Psychotic people also have beliefs that aren't grounded in reality, but are instead based on emotion and imagination. The main difference between psychotics and religious people is that the latter tend to form groups and establish their factually unsupported beliefs as "faith." The former get medicated, ostracized, and/or locked up in hospitals.So when does faith cross the line from religion to psychosis? There are surely many examples of people who exist somewhere on that line.
My problem with faith is that it could be applied to anything. I can have faith in the existence of vampires, talking trees, mystical rocks, ad nauseam. Does it mean that these things exist in reality? Of course not. The thought process that results in faith is little more than an emotional reaction or an exercise in imagination.
Take faith far enough and it becomes psychosis. Psychotic people also have beliefs that aren't grounded in reality, but are instead based on emotion and imagination. The main difference between psychotics and religious people is that the latter tend to form groups and establish their factually unsupported beliefs as "faith." The former get medicated, ostracized, and/or locked up in hospitals.
So when does faith cross the line from religion to psychosis? There are surely many examples of people who exist somewhere on that line.
