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Major Nikon

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12. There's not much hard data on the subject
Thu May 16, 2019, 01:47 PM
May 2019

Humans aren’t as complex as we typically see ourselves. People tend to come to religion for the same reasons over and over. I personally know of nobody who came to religion as an adult with no childhood indoctrination except in instances where they hit rock bottom in one way or another. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen, but if it does to any significant degree I’d like to know where those people are.

I have always suspected the reason religionists and especially cults primarily target schools and skid row is because that’s where the recruits are. I just don’t see secular adults from a position of stability flocking to Jesus.

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