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Is Faith a psychological disorder?

Not necessarily.

But religion? That's a different matter.
If one holds religious faith, that's not necessarily a sign of mental disorder.

But believing in a superstition as if it were fact is by definition a mental disorder. Inability to distinguish fantasy from reality is absolutely classic, text book mental disorder.

The question then becomes, are these merely exceptionally frightened persons that claim to be believers consistent with Pascal's Wager, but aren't? Or are they sincerely so deluded that they simply cannot distinguish mythopoeic smoke and mirrors from fact?

I don't know.
Do you?
Do they?

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"Astrology is I think the most feeble minded of the superstitions, and sinister only in the sense that it's the most solipsistic, just as the religious fool believes that he is the object of Gods creation, that he is so loved and created for a purpose, and even supervised at all times, that's how much he counts. By the way this is what's known as modesty among Christians, I don't understand it." Christopher Hitchens '98 CSPAN
" ... she will be trying to catch and redirect hands, more or less in frutality." Grace