I agree that atheists or physicists don't have the final, absolute answers on life, the universe, and everything. The difference has to do with attitude, though. The craziness of religion lies not in the fact that religion's answers are flawed or incomplete, but in the theist's conceit that the opposite is the case. Atheists are far humbler in recognizing human fallibility and the tentativeness of scientific answers.

There's a misunderstanding in a number of the comments on this article, about the status of my criticisms of religion and capitalism here. Clearly, I just assume these things are crazy for the sake of argument. I appeal to mere intuition or common sense, as you say, without trying to establishing these premises. The reason is that the article is about psychiatry, not religion or economics. The main argument is logically counterfactual: How would psychiatrists handle crazy social norms? I just take religion and capitalistic egoism as examples to test what psychiatrists would say in that philosophical context.