There are a lot of double standards that it's easy to glide over. People are critical of belief in "alien visitations" who are not necessarily critical of more

There are a lot of double standards that it's easy to glide over. People are critical of belief in "alien visitations" who are not necessarily critical of more conventional religion. In a lot of settings, belief in "fairies" would be treated differently from belief in "angels". It is a real practical problem in psychiatry of how to evaluate someone who claims to have religious experiences such as hearing God. The standard approach, if I recall correctly, is to consider it a mental disorder if it involves significant distress and/or interference with normal life, or if it involves angry and violent themes. The problem with the intellectual consistency of that (from the perspective of Western culture) is, well, have you read the parts of the Christian Bible where Jesus is in a bad mood? Or accounts of various saints? There has always been, and continues to be, a fair amount of prejudice based on how many people exist with a similar belief structure. Belief in odd things is not a matter of education, at any rate.