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To: one_less who wrote (82532)	6/21/2000 2:24:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It is a belief system that creates and sustains a tradition in the first place.

To: one_less who wrote (82532)	6/26/2000 5:45:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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.