How heartwarming. ? I’m happy that you and she had that breakthrough.

It's really impressive that you were able to get past the usual knee-jerk defensiveness. You must really have great communication skills. You may have reinforced the cracks in her belief. Maybe she'll come to her senses. Brava!

Hopefully she will find her way to be free of the guilt of sin and the fear of Hell.

Nice. I never had such talks. My family was never big on god.

When I point obviously discrepancies to my mother she is I never thought of it that way. I can't even count how many people I know that are nieve with the religious insanity.

I am so happy for you, for both of you. Such an emotional thing.

I couldn't imagine having that conversation with my fundamentalist mother. I hope yours turns out good for both of you. I don't know why some people have such a hard time letting go of false beliefs.

Sounds to me like your mother has been crumbling her own faith, probably for quite some time, and that she's a very intelligent woman who, like many others, never felt free to express her intelligence and free-thinking. I hope she's about to start doing so!

Congratulations! It sounds like it was a very civil and thoughtful discussion. These are not always possible, even with family. It seems you may have breached a barrier to understanding. Now all you need to do is show her how to fill that void of faith with an acceptance of reality and why that isn’t a bad thing. Little steps at a time.