(September 26, 2013 at 7:21 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I think it may be easier for a younger person to deconvert than an older person. I don't know, we have a saying where I'm from that when you're around 50 you've fossilized. Meaning it's very hard for you to change your ideas (not that you become as boring as a rock). Young people haven't formed a lot of strong ideas about a lot of issues and if we have we've only invested like a couple of years in them, so we're more fluid in a sense.
Doesn't mean there're more young atheists though. Atheism was around long before it's well known, I was an atheist 2 years before I heard of Richard Dawkins.
I prefer to think of it as having discarded a lot of notions on my way to fifty, and a higher percentage of those I have left stand up to scrutiny or are inscrutable.
