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

[Brettongarcia]

90. It's in "Evolution and Cognition," 2004, indexed in Academia.edu. It cites Freud and ...

... more recent corroborating literature by say, M. Davies among others. Who in turn published in the prestigious Blackwell publications. As well as "Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology."

Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. Which are "garbage" in the words of cbayer?

The article's basic orientation seems corroborated by much serious literature. Including not only classic sources like Freud. But also say Dein's "Religion and Psychosis," in Transcultural Psychiatry; published by the respected "Sage" Publishers, 2011. This publication is probably too new to be corroborated, in turn; having been available only since 2011. But about two months ago we cited dozens of articles in professional psychiatry journals corroborating the basic ideas.

Clearly there is now a whole school of thought in the field of Psychology, supporting the notion that major elements - or even all of - religion, is related to psychopathology. Especially to schizophrenia. And specifically and by name, to "delusions."

Possibly some of this had not yet impacted in the world of applied medicine and nursing. However, this is now a major school of thought in advanced academic research.