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Warpy

(114,723 posts)
7. Same reason I'm an atheist after surviving Catholic school
Fri May 29, 2026, 07:27 PM
22 hrs ago

All it takes is that first nagging doubt that just won't go away, no matter hwo many times your brain says the magic words, whatever they are. Eventually, the doubts envelop even the magic words and the world gains another critical thinker.

Or someone in a liberal family is freaked out by too many choices and a lack of certainty and heads off to the nearest megachurch, it can happen both ways.

While much of it is hard wired and predictable, it's not yet predictably inheritable.

It's just a shame that at least a quarter of our citizens find cutoff points in their heads comforting and protective and that a bunch of unscrupulous shitheels are using that to manipulate them into making such bad decisions.

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