Religious vs disability accommodations

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Interesting, thank you.

My comment about them being legalized as "the same" is just referring to how they manifest. They could both produce the exact same restriction in reality, that a person "can't" do a certain thing. If their religious belief is so strong and ingrained that deeply that it's virtually physically impossible for them to do that certain thing, then in real terms it's no different from a mental condition making the exact same thing virtually impossible. And at that point, I don't know what else I would call this religious "belief" than a disability, of sorts. It's just been artificially forced onto them rather than developed as a condition.

If instead the person simply refuses to do something, that is different. That's not a disability, that's being unwilling to properly do the job you have been employed to do. This is going to be a lesser level of indoctrination, and harder to address. A "conflict of beliefs" does not seem adequate to me; unless it has been openly disclosed at time of employment anyway.

In my opinion, religion and mental illness share a lot of the same results, even if the processes are not the same. Such times as they don't share the same results is the point at which the religious person is professing beliefs they would like to have, rather than actual beliefs. If someone says, "I see god" and they literally mean it, they think they are seeing god, they are (almost certainly) either mentally deluded to the point of mental illness symptoms, or making shit up.