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satans deception certainly shows in your perspective.

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Both are based on Bad Genetics… Both are forms of mental illness… So yeah… They are similar and they both distort reality.

Remember, “Addiction” is defined by consequences, not usage… When the negative consequences of your actions mount and you can’t stop, it is addiction and mental illness.

People lose friends all the time to their Theism.
People alienate their family all the time because of their Theism.
People lose their jobs due to theism.
Theism is often the cause of racism and bigotry.
Theism is often the cause of censorship and oppression.
Theism often results in death, torture, and other horrors against our species.

Yet people can’t give it up…

That is the definition of mental illness.

► Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain
http://www.livescience.com/health/spirituality-brain-link-100211.html
Scientists have identified areas of the brain that, when damaged, lead to greater spirituality. The findings hint at the roots of spiritual and religious attitudes, the researchers say.

► Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptic-agenticity
A Skeptic’s take on souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens and other invisible powers that be.

► Demon-Haunted Brain ( Preview )
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=demon-haunted-brain
If the brain mediates all experience, then paranormal phenomena are nothing more than neuronal events

► The Superstitious Pigeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f15PNrk94kg&feature=channel_page

► Critical Thinking
http://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup#p/a/u/0/6OLPL5p0fMg

► The problem with anecdotes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqerbz8KDc&feature=channel_page

► How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results
Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data

► Open-mindedness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI&feature=channel_page

► Skewed views of science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h9XntsSEro&feature=channel

► Transition to Atheism [personal]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WwZc-Vz7Y

Yes, it’s a good analogy.

Religion, like alcohol, distorts our reasoning faculty, it gets in the way of the truth.
It’s comforting for a while but when you give it up, you see reality.

Yes. Both can be learned traits. And once you are so afflicted, then it is hard to listen to others who try to tell you the truth (or just things that you do not want to hear). Both are hard habits to kick.