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can identical twins have different religious beliefs?
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RE: can identical twins have different religious beliefs?
I would be interested for people like No_God and Marsellus Wallace to tell us what their experiences were like with their twins.

I wonder if it's possible for identical twins to have such differing ideas about the possibilities of the supernatural at an early age. My siblings (not twins, mind you) were eager to get involved with the youth cults around where we grew up (Campus Crusade(!), Student Venture, FCA), and I wasn't. My sister dragged me to some events (I would only go to the ones at the beach), but I felt it was fake and stupid. I never really believed in God. Ostensibly, we had the same childhood experiences, we just interpreted them in different ways. Maybe there is something genetically different about me. I don't know. But I wonder if it's possible for identical twins to have the same differences that me and my siblings had, sharing the same genes. Very interesting question.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: can identical twins have different religious beliefs? - by SteelCurtain - June 23, 2014 at 10:26 pm

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