Just in case anyone is confused as to the point I'm trying to make in my opening post, I am saying that people who think they are special and such apply that perception to life itself and conclude that life itself must also be something special and meant for them. For example, someone who thinks "I am a very helpful and caring special person" might then conclude that this life must then be something special as well and offers a special "higher" reward for who they are as a person (a God and an afterlife). They are not willing to either accept that this is not the case and no longer complain about it, or they still insist on believing that there is a God and an afterlife anyway. I feel that the reason such people believe in such things anyway despite much scientific evidence is because they are just too much of a human being (someone great and special) to, again, possibly stoop so low as to believe or accept otherwise.
You’re right. One of my sons was so wrapped up in religion that his time on earth was only to serve god. The problem was he was going to marry and have a family, but he was not going to marry out of love for his wife. That’s because women were only here to serve man and have children. All his love was for God.
This created quite a problem for me in that I couldn't deal with this by kicking his butt, or shaking sense into him. And he was in the god bubble so talking would only enforce his convictions.
Your right, what I saw was he was self-centered and everything was about him. It is kind of a trap that the younger generation can get caught in when everything they do religiously is viewed by the people he respected and looked up to as righteous and godly. And he had a lot of friends in the religious movement that filled his social needs.