It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
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Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
A belief may be larger than a fact.
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.