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Comment by duped

6 days ago

Yes. Your experience is not every experience.

This is why I said “usually”, and provided an example from my life, instead of saying “always” as if it was a universal fact.

No, but it's extremely common.

Whenever I've met people who claim to have "reasoned" their way out of religion it has always been extremely shallow teenage rebellion, and always driven by feelings.

Even aalewis was "euphoric".

  • Yes, it tends to be the youths who reason themselves out of religion precisely because they don't have a strong emotional connection to it.