... be willing to judge the religious life primarily by the results of that experience on the individual. According to James, without religious ideas (whatever their origin) there is no proper reasoning for difficult moral choices, or hardships, and therefore, the quality of human life diminishes. For James the varieties of religious ideas that exist are important in that they lead humanity ... - are removed from it and brought to a solution which is universally accepted." (212) An illusion is an error made by humans in terms of wish fulfilment and borders on the line of psychotic delusions...

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