If you were raised Mormon, would you have converted to whatever you are now?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Yes. I think I'd be a hipster Christian today if born in the US no matter what I was raised.

[Mr. Smith]

Option 3

[Oakvale]

Hipster Christianity is at least (marginally?) less obviously a scam and cult than Mormonism but as with most of your polls on such topics I dread considering the hypothetical.

[windjammer]

No.
Too traditionnal to have an another religion.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

No.
Too traditional to have an another religion.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Unknowable (literally normal).

[they don't love you like i love you]

Unknowable (literally normal).

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.

[MATTROSE94]

Yes. I think I'd be a hipster Christian today if born in the US no matter what I was raised.

What exactly is Hipster Christianity?

[they don't love you like i love you]

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[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Yea, I would've become an atheist regardless of being raised Mormon. 

[RI]

These threads are stupid.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Unknowable (literally normal).

[Mr. Smith]

Hipster Christianity is at least (marginally?) less obviously a scam and cult than Mormonism but as with most of your polls on such topics I dread considering the hypothetical.

Oldiesfreak post of the week! Excellently done Stan Marsh.

And just like Stan Marsh, you'd do well to grow up....there was something else said at the end of that episode, but I won't go there.

[King]

My agnosticism was allowed by my parents being very lax at sending me to Catholic mass, buying me a home computer with internet to be inquisitive before even my school had internet, and encouraging me to be inquisitive by calling me smart all the time and putting pressure on me to live up to that title. So I never really cared deeply about being Catholic and was plenty open to other ideas.

If I had been born to say, the parents of my childhood friend Anthony, who was forced to attend church every Sunday and even do confessions to the priest regularly and taught to shoot a gun when he was 9 and now works at REI to pay for his hunting vacations, I would be a completely different person

[MATTROSE94]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hipster Christianity is pretty much a type of Christianity popular with people born from the 1980s onward that focuses on social justice and fighting against social injustices through the message of Christianity. In addition, it also seems to be more moderate on social issues such as gay marriage.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Described here: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=207485.msg4489504#msg4489504

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Hipster Christianity is pretty much a type of Christianity popular with people born from the 1980s onward that focuses on social justice and fighting against social injustices through the message of Christianity. In addition, it also seems to be more moderate on social issues such as gay marriage.

That's kind of true, but if you drop the "popular with people born from the 1980s onward" part you could just as easily describe the mainline churches. Also important to keep out it's more of an evangelical flair (which is part of what makes it notable, since liberal evangelicals are far less common than liberal mainliners), and tries to focus on more "modern" and "non-traditional" things that you wouldn't associate with church, like those videos I mentioned, things like being asked to text the pastor questions during the sermon to be answered at the end or tweet your reaction on your phone with a specific hashtag, or the unique way of doing communion I mentioned a bit ago.

[Badger]

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.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Unknowable (literally normal).

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.

Yes. Seriously. We might strongly suspect that, but we would, by definition, not know it, nor even really be able to corroborate our opinions.

[DC Al Fine]

I'd probably stay in Mormonism, but I could see myself winding up in Catholicism if I wasn't raised in the Reformed faith.

[© tweed]

this is cult of the individual at its highest.  you have no "essence".  you are nothing more than what you've been subjected to.

[they don't love you like i love you]

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.

Unknowable (literally normal).

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.

Yes. Seriously. We might strongly suspect that, but we would, by definition, not know it, nor even really be able to corroborate our opinions.

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%.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

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.

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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.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Unknowable (literally normal).

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

I have a feeling that I'd have converted to Evangelical Christianity at some point.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I can't fathom how different my outlook on life might be if I were raised in a religious fashion, so I can't really answer that.