There was no appropriate thread for this so I choose the thread on the top of the page...
There is this guy who went to school with me. Some time in his 2nd year of high school he started taking heroin. He got really addicted, completely lost his mind, went to jail, got rid of the heroin for a year or so and got back to it when his father died. He was in such bad state that we all expected him to die any day. Then some 5 years ago he disappeared and we didn't know where did he go or is he alive.
He came back 3 months ago.
I met him this weekend for a beer. It turns out that he was around for the last 5 years (Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia) and he was in some treatment group for drug addicts and alcoholics, who lived and worked isolated from the rest of the world. He's a new man now. Doesn't smoke, didn't even order a beer but juice. But all he talked about was Christianity and the Bible. The man is brain washed. At first I tried opposing his views but after his first answer I realized that it's best to answer with yes and to agree with all the nonsense he was saying.
And that's fine. They made him a religious fanatic, but at least he's not a drug addict.
In the middle of his preaching about Christ, the New Testament and him saying how very soon we will all realize that the Bible is the only true book that we will all follow, I asked him about the Quran and the Muslims and how some of them say the same things. His immediate answer was: But nooo, the Quran is teaching people to kill and to be evil.
So the man is 31 and it's sure that he never read the Quran. I wonder if he came to that conclusion alone or he learned that from the priests and the sisters visiting them in the mountains.
So, they treated him, he's not a drug addict anymore, but he thinks that the Muslims are evil and they want to murder all the Christians. Was that the only way to heal him? What's the final outcome going to be? He might start taking drugs again, but I doubt he'll ever stop thinking that the Muslims are evil.