@fmf saidBut I don't use it in the every day sense. I have told you that repeatedly. I only use 'delusion' in the mental health sense. Why are you not understanding that?
You should show some honesty, perhaps. You know full well that one does not need to be "qualified to diagnose mental illness" to use the everyday English word "delusional".
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYes. I believe that many articles of faith that I held to when I was a Christian were delusions, such as the prospect of everlasting life and supernatural transformation as the "hands" of the Holy Spirit.
Even labelling Dive and other Christians delusional. (And yourself I guess, retrospectively).
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI do understand it. It is you who doesn't seem to understand that I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist and I am using the word in its everyday English sense. You seem to want to say over and over and over again that I am using it incorrectly simply because I don't use it in the same restricted sense that you use it for.
But I don't use it in the every day sense. I have told you that repeatedly. I only use 'delusion' in the mental health sense. Why are you not understanding that?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidPresumably, you have never lost any friends to a motorcycle accident caused by their deluded and reckless feelings of invincibility.
Talk sense man.