When does the brainwashing occur? Intellectual people gain profound connection to religion and lose all
Prospective. Many elderly glue themselves to tv and radio evangelist spending their last dime on tighes for eternal salvation instead of food. When does it happen. It appears like mental health illnesses.

No shit, Sherlock!

Figures had to be something

I had a young neighbor who registered as a republican on his 18th birthday. He was always my friend and very helpful to me. We sometimes debated political issues and I occasionally thought I was making some headway. He married in his twenties and divorced before he was thirty. He was a faithful supportive father to the child from that marriage but he also went into a deep depression.
His family was able to afford psychological treatment and eventually he was given electric shock which was coming back into Vogue about 10 years ago. It seemed to help a great deal and the next thing I knew he was calling me to tell me I would be happy to know he'd become a progressive Democrat.

Two years after his conversion he died of a massive heart attack as he was getting in his car to go to work.

Does electric shock undo brain damage?

That explains why I call them faithfools.

It would certainly explain a lot!

Oh my, religious fundamentalism caused by a Pink Floyd tune what's the world coming to.

A good friend of ours, a lively, intelligent, irreverent woman suffered a horrific road accident and was in a coma for ten days. She gradually recovered and to all intents and purposes was "normal", except that she no longer had that "spark" that had made her such good company. By two years after the accident she had become deeply religious, and was always touting it to others.

Good. My theory has been proven then lol