Thread 17953844

>Be atheist, in atheist household
>Grow up in turbo christian community
>Go to hardcore christian private school because my extended family went there
>Being a nerd, made friends with the autists
>Literally all turbo Christians in school
>In their 20s fall out with their faith in the church
>Become turbo wokie cultists
>They all troon out.
>Move to bigger city
>Make friends with more autists
>They fucking hate gender ideology and see it as incoherent nonsense.
What causes this? Why is it that my religious autistic friends were so suseptable to essentially cult wokie beliefs to the point they are now Transgender, meanwhile my autistic atheist friends, hate troons and the entire ideology?
Does being raised religious make you more susceptible to cult thinking?

>>17953844 (OP)
No, being raised fundamentalist makes you go from one extreme to the other.

>>17953844 (OP)
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>>17953861
I think you're onto something here, but they were probably already latent homosexuals who bristled at the religious message being indoctrinated to them. I remember my gay cousin, who was raised in a hardcore Christian church that preached against such things, getting upset we were singing along to "what if god was one of us" because he "didn't like god songs" lmao.

Personally, I was raised Mormon, and it took me many years after leaving the church years ago when I was 17 before I could even ponder religion. A few years of atheism lead to me realizing that although Mormonism is an obviously and provably wrong religion, the same can't be said of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc. Thankfully in my 20s my bitterness at "religion" (actually the Mormon Church) faded and now learning about religion is one of my passions. I even practice a religion, but that's a story for another time.

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>>17954177
Blogpost somewhere else faggot

>>17954329
sorry for interrupting your one letter spam posts?

>>17953844 (OP)
its pretty much a case of when you stop believing in one giga extreme you are still likely to think in extreme logic so you eventually go to another extreme, just look at how many giga commies ended up as giga rightwingers and vice versa

>>17954345
No not me, but cutting off your personal experience essentially boils it down to “I agree with your statement.” To the person you replied to.

The more fundamentalist a religion is, and how anal they are about it, the more likely when an individual steps away from said religion, they pivot to another extreme since that’s their normal growing up.

OP’s question can be cut down too.

People raised in Christian households can swap faiths and become irreligious, but they can never abandon the pattern of thought they were brought up in.

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>>17954358
I realize you’re probably the OP and I’m being too mean. Since you already added your experience as the premise to the question, it’s good to add more details I guess. I hope I don’t dissuade you from asking more questions in the future, better than the religious shitflinging here.

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>>17954371
I disagree. With enough work you can fundamentally alter your thought processes. I forget the exact name but there is a psychology therapy that aims to do just this. I was quite angry in my late teens but through Stoicism I changed the way I think, basically going through that therapy self-directed with philosophy instead of psychology, leading me to become much more at peace with the turbulence of life.