Do some atheists still thin Religion is a mental illness?

[Sirensong sunshine]

I have suffered from a mental illness: depression.

It was as part of the treatment from depression that I finally threw of the lingering 'spiritual' thoughts I had. I'm freer and happier now.

I think for some people it's hard to fathom how holding a belief that is patently so ridiculous, so without foundation, so lacking in any evidence that the only possible cause must be some kind of deficiency. But this is what childhood indoctrination does: it normalizes the extraordinary.