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When cognitive decline brings back religious expectations

My mother is getting dementia and keeps asking when we're going to church together like we used to and I don't want to disappoint her but I also can't pretend to believe.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The deterioration of memory can resurrect old patterns that no longer fit current beliefs.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Secular legacy in a post-religious age?”

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