As someone who had mostly positive or otherwise neutral experiences with religion I can fully understand why severe indoctrination and late change of mind could destroy someone's psychological well being. I imagine someone living a few years or even decades thinking something is right and dedicating most of their life, out of passion and fear, to that something - And then they find out it's a lie, but they' can't let it go because they were told so many times it is right they can't conceive the possibility of it being wrong.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
