I have never understood the "religious mind" except to be aware that they can beieve just about anything they want to believe or are raised or encouraged by others to believe. Case in point that is reflected in the article: my mother who is very old was raised in one faith, married someone of another faith but neither faith stuck well over the decades. What did stick was some kind of loose ability to believe any kind of silly nonsense that one sees on the so-called history channel. She was happy to believe in magic crystals, ghosts, aliens, hidden technologies and everything else that uncritical tabloid-reading people seem more prone to accept as true because it is more fun. Now that she is actually dying she is terrified of "the next world" because she has no idea "what to expect." I am an atheist with zero fear of death.But from an ethical perspective I cannot give her my gift of reality as it would harm her more, scare her out of her fading wits, and just be cruel because she would then imagine her death in terms of finality and lonely oblivion instead of merely So I have been working on restoring some faith in her god to get her ready to accept death. So here I am, a profound atheist for the last fifty years trying to help my mother die with some kind of soothing religious faith. Her feelings of guilt are making her terrified of Hell. By the way a curse on those who engage in spiritual terrorism. Manipulating people's fears of death to get them to accept their salvific agenda I think can cause a lot of harm. So I cannot erase the damage of her childhood ideas of Hell from her mind because it is like a grayscale plague in her brain and I have to work within a theological context, 'If you are truly sorry for your sins god will forgive you'. You might think that someone n their late nineties would not be petrified of dying, but not so. Yet for me who believes only in the natural world I find death to be completely irrelevant and no cause for concern. So I have found in my life that there really seems to be different kinds of brains, those who are very prone to religiosity and those like myself that just can't groke it. The first kind is more prone to belief in anything that they want to believe while the second kind of brain has a lot of critical filters on what can be accepted as 'true'. In the short term, and that is the only term my mother has right now, I am going with morphine on demand as the opiate of her people I don't think will ever kick-in as effectively.