my only son has rejected me?

Question

because i live with my boyfriend. but i love him deeply and want him to reject his fanatical religious ideas and join me in the west. i want him to grow up as a normal human being who respects humanity.
will my dream ever come true? will he accept me for what and who i am and give up his foolish brand of religious fundamentalism?

(like to hear your views and advice from those who have been in my position)

Answer 1

"will he accept me for what and who i am and give up his foolish brand of religious fundamentalism?"

Will you accept him for who he is?

That might be a good place to start.

Answer 2

I was married into a family of organized followers once. I had to give and then give more, it made out to about ten-percent (pre-tax). These religious ideologies are good, yet their practices are bad. As for advice on your particular question, I can only offer you an extreme option. I will say that my partial mind, not the mind of “God within me” says that you see that evil in these organized religions. I say this because you mentioned a respect for humanity. Most religious followers believe in what their church says, not so much in what in what their church has done in its past, or how it spends the money given to it. It is a hard task to do with a devoted follower, but if you are persistent with a reminder of those travesties performed throughout time, past and present by these sanctions that so many follow. If you try to show them, science is real and unquestionable in the opinions of anyone with free thought and opinion. Encourage him to think of how his “God” would want him to behave and then once again show how these religions like Christianity have abused their standing and had taken the opportunity for profit and control. After all, this is what religions are about, control and money. Anyone who disagrees with me either has probably given much to a church in an attempt of buying a peaceful mind, or has accepted a small portion of its profit for charity in a public relation movement for the particular sanction.

Answer 3

Anyone who is that committed to their belief is going to be difficult to change. He developed his beliefs out of a need when he was younger. A need to belong to something, to feel important, that life has a purpose. Now, how does one unlearn that? It is a road that is next to impossible. Maybe there is something you can do to find a middle ground that he would agree to and start talking about it. Getting married and not living in his concept of "sin" would be an easy solution to start a conversation perhaps. But then again, I don't know what religion you speak of so it is hard to say if this will even work. Good luck!