So we should obviously block all religious people from migrating to the West. I'm glad we agree. Of course that means almost everyone, which is my immigration policy. No vacancy.

Of course without said "mental illness", the hurricane victims in Houston wouldn't have had shelter or food, but whatever. I noticed the secular and Islamic salvation army was providing shelter, food and water everywhere. Can you sense my sarcasm?

Religion can be a damaging mental illness, it can also be a life saving mental illness.

The same can be said of a suicidal man who suddenly develops schizophrenia and believes Elvis is talking to him. Should we therefore encourage schizophrenia?

I'm not against the good religions do, and they often do good.

False. People choose whether or not to do good. Religion has nothing to do with it. Besides which, if someone decides to help another only to save himself from the fiery pits of hell, then is that even "good" in the first place? It sounds more like a prison of fear to me. Furthermore, if that prison of fear is a catalyst for good then it is also a catalyst for evil, since the main three monotheistic religions contain just as much -- if not more -- evil than good.

I, myself, do not believe, so I am kind of on my own, along with other non-believers

So why on Earth would you defend the mass indoctrination of children into a mental illness?

Whoever dies or suffers is singled out, by GOD, to suffer or die.

Which would again prove that a person motivated by religion is not good, since good people suffer and die every day.

I was about to make a joke that religion isn't nearly as disturbing or damaging as Bronyism, but then I looked it up before I posted and low and behold Bronyism is actually classified as a religion by some people. Well, whadayaknow? So heck yes.

I think it was Arthur C Clarke who once said, "Any technology sufficiently more advanced than our own is indistinguishable from magic." With that in mind, a study was done on some of the British colony islands a while back, which for the last two hundred years have worshipped a British sailor who once arrived with canned goods.

Sorry. I hit the dispute button by accident. Force of habit.

It is difficult to understand how any sane person could believe the hocus pocus.

It looks like your position boils down to the view that lack of logic and critical thinking are the disease, and that religion is just a symptom.

If that is more or less your point, I can agree.

History shows us that few things are more destructive than good intentions combined with poor logic. That is how we got the insanity of the inquisition, witch trials, the oppression of communism in the USSR and Mao's China, the Umayyad conquests and modern jihadist terrorism, etc,. ad naseum.

I don't know. I don't support the religion of Islam. I don't support the religion of Christianity either. I DO support the American Constitution that does not support EITHER, but allows the following of BOTH.

In answer to your question, I view both religions as "damaging" to the mentality, but, BOTH can also give those needing mental support a lift. That is WHY the Constitution allows BOTH (and others), if needed. We would not have a democracy if the founding fathers limited the freedoms, religious or other, and accepted ONLY certain people with certain followings. Iran, Iraq allow only one religion. I don't want an America that only allows one religion. Having only one mental illness is much worse than having a choice. ;-)

Then why it is the Leftist support the Religion of Islam ?

I don't defend it when it is attacked by atheists or by agnostics. I only defend it when it is being attacked by equally raging mad Bible Belt bigots such as yourself, who believe equally stupid things, and who have no problem with religion -- provided it is their own.