True or false: religious people are mentally ill purely by virtue of being religious?

[Htom Sirveaux]

62. That analogy comes loaded with assumptions that presuppose your conclusion.

Probably the biggest one is that the "standard deity concept" is a literal, cartoonish understanding of the one depicted in the Bible. The second biggest one is that a deity couldn't possibly be real because science will eventually overturn that idea by explaining everything, or else invalidate any other kind of explanation merely by existing (since God functions as an explanation for the existence of the universe in a way that leprechauns do not, a probable next move is to declare that the universe will eventually get a scientific explanation just like rainbows, lightning, thunder, etc. did).

So yeah, if you want to say "God is a delusion", you'll have to bring forth the positive superior evidence of non-existence as implied by the definition of "delusion" that you yourself offered (and that analogy didn't even begin to satisfy).

That's not privilege, that's merely expecting consistency.