Only in a culture of denial could someone coin the paradoxical phrase "friendly fire" to describe accidentally shooting your own people.

If you will stand for religion, you will fall for anything.

Denial is a swift and deep current beneath the mental landscape.

Living in "unconscious" denial is not a very successful coping strategy except where it prevents someone from succumbing to grief or misery which can be worse in the short term. However, the human capacity for denial is a survival trait which has allowed humans to survive under the most adverse of circumstances. Use your delusion as necessary. Learn to harness the power of denial and you can survive almost anything. Just be aware that it is what it is, and cannot be maintained forever.

If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.

Lose your illusion or use your delusion. The choice is yours.