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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Ilaine who wrote (49368)6/8/2004 3:26:08 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793966
 
So, does that make me chopped liver, or what?

A freak of nature? The exception that proves the rule? <gggg>

Seriously, what I said was "It's hard to imagine anyone fitting that profile ever adopting religion."

I assume that you were raised with your religion. That's not the same as someone who is non-religious adopting religion as an adult, which is the condition of the people I was talking about. The status quo is always the default because some energy is required to shift gears. Yours, I assume, is to believe whereas mine is to not believe.

It seems to me that for an adult to get religion he would have to either be searching for something missing in his life and end up finding religion. Or he would be drawn into it through or for social interactions. (I seem to remember reading a long time ago about a survey reporting that a very large proportion of people choose their religion based on that of their social circle.) No self-contained introvert is likely to find himself in either situation. I suppose there's always the possibility of some external event such as a near-death experience triggering an urge for religion, but those things don't come around often and there's no reason to think that having one would necessarily undo habits of a lifetime.
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