Which God are you talking about, Poyndexter?
The Christian God says to love one another. Is someone who cares for others in order to please God a megalomaniac? If so, I would be proud to be a megalomaniac.
In reality, a megalomaniac is someone who has delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. To have a fantasy of omnipotence is not to think that one is doing the will of God - it's thinking that one IS God.
Megalomaniacs may attempt to justify their behaviour using spurious reasoning of either a religious or non-religious kind, and in neither case does it follow that all thought in that field is delusional.
Meanwhile, what of Joseph Prescott? He professes that he knows that everyone who claims to be doing God's will in any given matter is a megalomaniac. But...who but God could possibly know that for certain? Thus, Prescott has made an implicit claim to omnipotence, and thereby his own megalomania is clear.
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