Religion
In reply to the discussion: Religious Belief = Mental Illness: A More Venomous Response [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)1) Shrink comes from 'headshrinker'. It comes from a wide societal prejudice against seeking help for psychological problems. Therefore, it is dismissive and pejorative. Some psychologists/psychiatrist may personally find it a term of 'affection' but again not all do. If you want to have a serious discussion, it is usually consider adult and civil to not use a potentially pejorative term if you are uncertain to how it will be taken by your audience.
2) That was only one example. It was not chosen as representative of anything you are now trying to make it to be. It is neither fully negative nor fully positive, but it is civil, polite, and shows that the consensus is that religion is not a mental disorder in toto.
3) With regards to formal logic, please review your knowledge on syllogisms and existential fallacies.
4) & 5) "I did not say but I am saying."
6) If we acknowledge it as a possible hypothesis, I would be interested in discussing it further in a new topic.
7) I am well-trained in several fields. Integrative studies will be necessary for acceptance because one field commenting on another purview without complete knowledge of the later is not really good scholarship.
8) I don't know if this one is in reply to me or not. If so, then you are not reading my posts merely skimming them. I am not a member of any official religion or church and am quite ignostic on the topic of deities.