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Quiet a lot of food for thought in this post, some of the comments about addiction to religion interseted me as an alcoholic/drug addict who was involved with the 12 step program a few yrs back. Not to knock that particular method of recovery but for myself I could never get over the whole higher power aspect of it all, and as open-mindedness is a principle central to the 12 step method, I tried it, and got nowhere with it, talking to a 'no one there' is how I felt, so I left. But I could see that addiction to recovery in so many people I met during that time was so similar to the addiction to Religion and/or to substance abuse, maybe by day to day not as damning as getting loaded all the time, but nevertheless just as vacant. I myself am not religious or athiest nor agnostic. Perhaps spirtitualy content to just live my life in the day as best possible and try not to upset others. And in keeping with the thread title, I'm sure as long as people have been predisposed to grow in an envirnoment that preaches a religion (whatever that religion might be) they're have been as many Athiests among them as ever, presuming that non-belief is not anything new to the human mind that asks questions. I feel that many just don't question it that much and are content to agree with the message they hear.
Sorry rambling on my first post....
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