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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: one_less who wrote (82532)6/26/2000 5:45:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Your presumption that belief has anything to do with tradition, is false.

Isn't it amazing that little people born into Catholic families tend to remain Catholics, or that little Jews remain Jews, or little Muslims tend to stay Muslim. I would love a study that shows what the kids of atheists become religiously. I would guess that they are predominantly atheists. The religious tradition of a close family dominates the environment.

If you estimate a transition matrix of religious affiliation of the child's mother and religious affiliation (or belief) of the person at death it will be, I believe, dominated by the main diagonal. If would be interesting to see what the significant transitions are. Do Episcopalions become atheists? Or Methodists when they move to Texas? Do Jews become Catholics? (I had a Jewish first cousin who became a Dominican father!). Once we had "the facts" we could start to understand why people make the changes they do over their lifetimes.

I think the history of the reformation (and of the iconoclasts in the Eastern Roman Empire) who that taste for ritual is highly personal. Some of my ancestors thought cool to wreck holy statues and paintings and strip surplices off of priests.
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