(March 4, 2011 at 11:41 am)OnlyNatural Wrote: If they choose the second, it will just be another tragic reminder of how religion divides hearts and minds, and creates unnecessary conflict between people who might otherwise be close.
I find the psychology behind these events somewhat interesting. It seems to me that many times, the religious beliefs will override the need to be close to a loved one due to the inability of the theist to ignore his or her synthetic moral/religious qualms (the cognitive dissonance of shunning their own stupid beliefs is too much for them to take, even for a second). I have also witnessed this from my family, but I have also experienced their need to bring religion into the relationship. I think that it has something to do with theists wanting to console themselves "spiritually" AND loved ones without losing either connection. Unfortunately, family ties -more often than the inverse- do not take precedent over religious beliefs. I wonder why that is, neurologically-speaking....A neuro-scientist of sorts will have to address such an issue, because those prominent, overly-happy family counselors do not seem to care about religious nutjobs fucking up their own relationships.
