[Mental illness] belonged to the destiny of this history that such a criticism should, after the event, be applied by medicine to all religious phenomena and rebound, at the expense of the Catholic Church, which had actually solicited it, against the Christian experience as a whole, and thus show at the same time, and in a paradoxical way, that religion belongs to the fantastic powers of neurosis and that those whom religion had condemned were victims of both their religion and their neurosis.

- Michel Foucault, Mental Illness and Psychology, page 65

The student in me wishes I had taken philosophy classes in college. The writer in me balks at the length and structure of this (single!) sentence. The brain in me wishes that it was better developed to understand what the heck Foucault is trying to say.