Religion

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I spent a great deal of time in rehab with addicts of all types. Her conversion and rapid, deep immersion sound a lot like many, many addicts I know who used religion to replace the hole in their lives that they were formerly filling with substance abuse.

Now, I'm not saying this woman was/is an addict. Of course, there is no way for me to know.

I just know that people who have some emotional holes in their life often find ways to fill them with the sort of behavior she describes. Some people fill those holes by becoming marathon runners or other sorts of athletes. Some, as I mentioned, use drugs and alcohol, food, shopping, sex.

We don't get a sense of what her life was like, emotionally, before her grand conversion. The whole idea that atheism was incompatible with her values is odd and makes me wonder what those were. I share the same, human morals and values as every other human. I don't need a deity to tell me it is wrong to lie, cheat, steal and kill. Note though, the God of her Christian Bible is perfectly okay with all of those things as long as they're being done to neighboring tribes and not to one's own tribe. So there is a problem there.