The antics of those under 30 should not absent - well, the miraculous itself - influence one's opinion of the metaphysical - one way or the other. If it did, most would join my little small cohort of those separated from faith. Think about that one!
Bushie is just barely under 30. He's about to turn 29. Jmfsct is in his 40s.
And only one of the two really engages in the kind of "antics" to which I refer. The other is a rather mature hard wired type, sort of like myself, although I find his wiring to just not have much nexus to mine. That is what comes from having different life experiences, and well, my wiring is to constantly question everything, so hewing to someone else's preset array of principles, whether theological, ideological, and/or social, just fences me in, and I just won't stand for that! That probably is not what makes the jmfcst tick. He needs structure, is my guess.