Considering I was born and raised Catholic but converted to mainline Protestantism as an adult, it stands to reason I probably would've converted from Mormonism too. But that of course leaves a ton of variables about personality development open to chance.
Thanks for sharing that actually, good real life counter to the people I've seen here who basically say no one EVER converts from Catholicism because CULTURE and all that stuff. Which is very demonstratably untrue.That's a straw man. It isn't what anybody's claiming. It's that in some countries and some time periods, which don't really include the contemporary United States, that's a lot less
common.
Seriously? If opebo was still here he'd obviously say he'd still be an atheist and it's hard to see ANYONE disagreeing with that. For just one example.
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Yes. Seriously. We might strongly
suspect that, but we would,
by definition, not know it, nor even really be able to corroborate our opinions.
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OK but can we agree that it's most likely (by a wide margin) that opebo would be an atheist even if he had been raised Mormon...or anything for that matter? I doubt anyone would dispute that. If not 100% certainty than at least 99%.
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Eh, maybe more like 85% or 90%, sure. I really do think you're overstating nature as opposed to nurture here.
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