Thanks for getting down in tall grass and mud with our FRiend Diogenes Lamp.
There's no doubt in my mind that DiogenesLamp is one sick puppy, whose overheated imagination has rendered his mind delusional, as you suggested earlier.
Just be careful you don't get so deep in his muck than you yourself can't climb back out, FRiend.
How very "Soviet" of you. Their normal rebuttal to dissidents were "They must be mentally ill, because no sane person could disagree with the Party line. "
I think the Nazis also used this tactic. Good Provenance you have there.
In contrast, I don't consider a one of you to be insane, I consider you to have the same herd mentality that you were taught, and to simply lack the necessary intellectual honesty to put aside pleasant untruths for unpleasant truths.
You have an emotional stake in your position, and it bothers you greatly for anyone to suggest that something you grew up believing, something that actually made you feel proud, is not actually the accurate truth.
That your god has clay feet, and that your heroes must fall from their pedestals, is something which most people would rather not experience, and some deal with the problem by simply closing their eyes and ears and repeating their taught mantras.
Back to you and your mantra.