As to being "addicted" to religion... ;-) Heh! Well, when does a practice become an addiction?

When it gets way out of balance, that's when. When it's taking up more of a person's time and energy than is healthy. If you sometimes drink a coffee, but definitely not every day and maybe only occasionally, you're probably not addicted to it. If you sometimes eat oranges, and you enjoy them, but you don't HAVE to have oranges every single day...then you're probably not addicted to oranges.

If you have some religious ideas in your thinking, but you don't talk about religion constantly to everyone you meet and judge everyone on the basis of whether or not they belong to your religion...then you're not addicted to religion.

And in any case, virtually everyone is addicted to something...usually a fair number of things....therefore why single out religion, Riginslinger, unless you are addicted to taking issue with religion? And you are.

That doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you have noticeable emotional addictions just like the rest of us. You're addicted. ;-)