why isnt religions considered a sickness by shrinks?

Question

isnt it mass illusion

Answer 1

For something to be classified as a mental illness, it has to do a variety of things. Usually these things include making the victim unhappy or making them poorly equipped to deal with the real world.

In this sense, you may see that for most people, religion ISN'T a mental illness. It makes most people happier instead of less happy to think that their lives have a point and that eventually justice prevails, even if they never see it. And while there are exceptions, most religious belief also helps their possessors not only get along, but do so in a socially beneficial way. Let me say that again, though... there are exceptions!

There's also another, odd possibility. What if some religions are right? What if there is some kind of deity out there, or if there is something that we might call a soul? Stranger things have happened than that. If any religion is true, then it would be the atheists who would have to worry about being classified as mentally ill. After all, their non-belief makes them poorly equipped to deal with the afterlife...

But until there's definitive evidence one way or the other, I think religion just falls into the same category as eccentricity and the ability to see smells and taste colours: something most people who have it enjoy and therefore wouldn't even want it 'treated' if it could be.

Answer 2

A distorted world view is not considered a mental illness. It's an economic and political decision for shrinks to not look at Objective Reality......when it comes to their religious believers.

Answer 3

I think because believing in God does more good than harm for a person. I also think it is because the belief in God has been around longer than the shrink has.

Answer 4

Religions are a choice. You don't have to be Muslim, or Christian, or Buddhist. Often times, you have to be religious or face persecution.