People who believe they have touched, been touched by, seen or heard from God are delusional and it could be said they are having a God Delusion, certainly interpreting things as miracles by God is analogous to interpreting the car outside your house as belonging to the KGB who are tracking you because you're the only man who can stop the bomb. Most religious people think nothing of the sort, delusion is a psychiatric term and the inference made is that these people should be gibbering inside a mental ward taking pills. Why? Because the term delusional is usually said of schizophrenics. You can't even coherently argue that the belief is erronous, as there is yet to be any solid proof that a deity or creator does not exist.
I have no gripe with the man, I find his writing witty, well researched and highly intelligent, I just think that by flanderizing the concept of 'Delusion' he really deserved (And maybe even sought after) all the controversy his claim created. It would have been far more prudential to title the book something along the lines of 'The Divine Misconception'. I know I'd buy a book with a title like that.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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