A topic I'd like to raise myself:

On the premise that religions are made of delusions and unfounded claims (if someone thinks they have evidence, this point doesn't apply there) - should it be considered an ideal that people are better off living in reality, or could one say that being able to live in delusions is a "valuable" aspect of being human?

I mean, we all know of plenty of cases where delusion results in indisputably BAD things - intolerance and bigotry, crankery, damage inflicted on society, health, etc..
Some forms could also be called positive - the belief in a blissful afterlife or seeing their loved ones again may have a therapeutic and comforting effect (excluding the questions whether it could motivate people to treat death with less care); a belief in some kind of divine judgment may keep some people in line, or give them motivation to live up to their own (or in the worse cases, society's) moral values.

As far as I'm concerned, the fun definitely ends when unfounded beliefs make their way into public education and start mixing up with... well, known facts.
I don't see how something like that can be good for a society.

However, talking about personal offense again (the kind that results from burst bubbles) - should those bubbles be respected and treated with care at the fear of taking away some relevant crutch from a mind, or... should they be burst because they're bubbles?