Steve, I think there's a third category of religious refugees, and that's the folks who run screaming from organized religion in their late teens and 20s and go running back to it either when they have kids or when they find life tough to face. Something about the heavy questions of life, the universe, and everything makes it hard for people to bear without the comfort of what they grew up with, like a cosmic teddy bear that's always there for you.
That's not the ideal way to operate a personal belief system - like some sort of "break glass in case of life meaning emergency" box. But I bear no real ill wll towards those who choose it.
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