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Oct 23, 2020Liked by Blake Chastain

I was really surprised at how much this conversation on Twitter connected with my experience. I hadn't thought about it in such detail before, but it really resonates. I said on Twitter, but will repeat here... I think I have subconsciously avoided old friends because of not wanting to deal with all this.

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There's not a one-size-fits-all experience. Lots of people exit their parents' religious culture quite readily and early without a lot of drama. Many feel great about it — no difficulties at all. I often wonder if that is the much larger group of ex-religious Americans. People who were raised in a purely secular context are still pretty rare. And if you look at the longer history and wider networks in a family you find people always moving in and out of religion.

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