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I know you’re kidding, but as Mike says, point being, if you believe that God created nature using whatever mysterious powers there might be, and believe the people created fictions to account for all the horrors nature provides us, that is indeed madness. Nature can’t really be argued with, so believers and non-believers tend to agree on what it is. Spinoza’s definitions, as Stanford’s Encyclopedia puts it, “consists in showing that our happiness and well-being lie not in a life enslaved to the passions and to the transitory goods we ordinarily pursue; nor in the related unreflective attachment to the superstitions that pass as religion, but rather in the life of reason.” Accomplished by observing what is. Perfectly sane.