Completely!

Definitely!

Nope... I like to be Nice.

yes but would never tell them that

Thank you all for your responses! Glad to see that I’ve joined such a flourishing and intelligent community!

I agree with those here saying yes. It is important to remember that delusional thinking is the product of beliefs not based on reality or evidence. We are all delusional at some time or another, like when we fall madly in love and then look back in a detached way and think, well that was silly of me. A person's religion can be a life long delusion, especially if they really believe it. But a lot of people are religious only notionally; they don't really believe it, but think being religious is good for one reason or another - fitting in with the group, following the family, social and other reasons. I don't think that's delusional as much as social conformity and frankly intellectual laziness. Religions rely on huge numbers of people like this. Personally, I look down on people like that more than the truly religiously delusional.

Yes

I can't give any answer except yes. They are deluded by themselves and by others, willingly in many cases.

Yes. It amazes me how otherwise intelligent people can continue to belive such nonsense.

Yes, absolutely, Who could possibly think otherwise ? the following contributions are far better than I could offer.

Quintessentially so.

Very much so

IMHO religious people are delusional... They are seeking to please someone or something that doesn't exist.

Yes

define delusional ?
one's delusional is the other's delusional

Under certain circumstances we each have the potential to buy into delusional thought and belief. I believe it is part of human condition. This is why we need not be afraid to question.

Many of them are.

I think for most of them it is just that they cant' face the world as it is, so they need the delusion to cinvince themselves that the world is a bettter place than it really is. I think these persons are mostly benign.

Then there are those who use religion tbecause they want o feel superior to others and are condescending, smug and often go off into fanaticism when they believe they aren't taken serioously, because they believe themselves to be more important than they really are. These persons are dangerous! Their delusion is in their own self importance, which is only bolstered by their religious beliefs.

Absolutely, its a way of people ex specially ones who have children, to die and neaver seeing your children again is such a fear that it could be easy to let the mind calm one down by telling it that, oh yea you will see them again ,in the after life! Its all most as bad as having a child die while the parent is still alive, its fear of loss!

As with anything there are degrees. Some people are believers but you would never know because they aren't out in the open about it. If they do mention it, then it's in passing but they don't lecture you or press their beliefs on you. Some people are full blown whackadoodles and are obviously delusional.

No - again live and let live if it floats your boat go for it !

Yes. My boyfriend’s mom once told him that god told her that I would someday believe in him. Well...needless to say, I still haven’t.

In one word...yes.

Yes and no. Yes in that they believe in a non-existent creature or creatures. No, in that thye didn't invent those creatures, they've been brainwashed into believng in them. It's like Son of sam. He was delusional, in that he thought his dog was telling him who to kill. If his society had been,for generations, telling themselves that dogs run things, he'd merely be devoted.

Yup.

De·lu·sion·al
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adjective
characterized by or holding idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are contradicted by reality or rational argument, typically as a symptom of mental disorder.

Yes, they have been deluded. But not usually in the sense of having a mental disorder. They are just caught up in a bunch of lies that seem to be confirmed by those around them.