Given that no one has been able to demonstrate any objective evidence for a deity or anything supernatural, that definition is as accurate as I can find for theists who believe a deity exists, and can & does set aside the physical laws of the universe at will.
This necessarily includes all contemporary monotheisms of course, and a brief read of their religious tomes proves this to be the case.
The definition in the title is of course the primary dictionary definition of the word delusion.
Many theists have even gone so far on here as to claim there is no such thing as objective evidence, dismissing the methods of science and logic. Two examples would be Someone, and quip, though there are undoubtedly more.
I know Breezy claimed nothing could really be entirely objective as humans are inherently biased.
This struck me as one of those spurious apologist's claims that since we can't ever have 100% certainty about anything, then this justified denying any fact no matter how objectively well evidenced it was. One wonders why he's bothering to study anything in that case, but that aside it is a demonstrably absurd claim.
So if no one can demonstrate any OBJECTIVE evidence for an unshakeable belief, then by definition that is a delusion.
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