Why Would You Care?

Imagine that your best friend has joined a small religious group that some call a cult.
Imagine that your Uncle has begun sacrificing baby animals to Zeus on a weekly basis.
Imagine that your wife starts taking month-long pilgrimages each year to pray to a holy rock.
Imagine that most of your family has moved to a village at the base of a volcano and has adopted the local belief that an angry god inside its cauldron must regularly be appeased with a portion of the town's harvest.

If any of these scenarios were real, why would you care? Other than the willing sacrifice of a little time and money, what is the harm of your friend and family's various beliefs? Your friend is still the funny, quirky guy that you've enjoyed hanging out with since grade school. Your uncle is still the wise mentor that you look up to. You wife still looks at you the way you look at her, with love and affection. And your family is still your family, just in another town. No one even attempts to convert you to their way of thinking.

Would you be an asshole for wanting to help "cure" your friends and family of their "delusions"?
Its a good question, and one I ask myself all the time.

What do you think?