Is Religion a form of Mental Illness?   

Organized religions are more like deadly flu bugs, specifically designed by any given cultures' "spiritual authorities" to distract, delude and devour the unwashed masses.   Sometimes these "spiritual viruses" do contribute to full-blown cases of psychosis / neurosis in vulnerable individuals. More often, though, they manifest as sporadic but predictable - and usually quite calculated - epidemics of institutionalized, sanctified social illness - such as fundamentalism, intolerance, Inquisitions, tribal (rather than global) mentality propogating hatred and "holy wars" etc.

That being said, what I'd REALLY like to discuss is ...

Is Illness a form of Mental Religion?

Maybe I'll start a new thread, though.