Indoctrination

[Spongebob]

Oh, it took about 15 years between the time I first read the Bible through cover-to-cover and stopped being a Pentecostal to realizing I had become an atheist. I was in my early forties when I knowingly met my third atheist. In my youth I thought Ayn Rand was right about a lot of things but close-minded for not believing in God, now it's more like I think God was one of the few things she got right.

OK, so similar religious half-life as me then.  I imagine you likely had it much worse being Pentecostal.  I was Baptist and knew some Pentecostals.  We thought they were the crazy ones.  I also had my Ayn Rand phase.  That was largely due to the Rush music based on her books, which led to me looking into that.  Thankfully it was short lived.

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If you are ok with that, then continue what you are doing.

Well it's not like I have much of a choice. I'm not much of an intellectual powerhouse. You're right about me not caring about objective information. My mind is very fluid/adaptable. I don't take society's defintion of things as the final word, in any case.

That's a cop out.  You always have a choice.  I'm no genius.  Few people I know are.  Your education is not limited to your IQ, it's limited to your determination to be educated versus accepting things on face value.  As I explained before, I had very different views when I was younger due to the face that I was indoctrinated into religion.  That didn't stop me from reading and learning from other sources and expanding my education to the point that I could dismiss much of what I was taught as a Christian.

Saying your mind is "fluid" is nonsense.  It doesn't mean anything.  You mind is no different than other human unless you are describing something like autism or mental illness.

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I really have to wonder why some people mentally shirk religion in favor of atheism.

You don't have to wonder.  All you have to do is ask.  This is where your cop-out philosophy fails you.  Your are too lazy and incorrigible to even ask people about themselves and so you just prefer to make up shit that is complete nonsense.  That's great troll behavior.