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>Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales.

Not to defend religion, but young people tend to be "Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking" of pretty much anything that isn't centred around their own world.




Yes, even in Plato's Laws the speakers remark how being an atheist is a young person thing. CS Lewis was an atheist until around his late twenties.




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