07-04-2007, 10:26 AM
My life experience has taught me that radicals are mostly the same. They need to belong and will ascribe allegiance accordingly. A rabid conservative Catholic of my acquaintance became a rabid anarchist agnostic. He once forcefully supported Conservative political candidates and now forcefully supports liberal or radical/liberal candidates.
I'm sure others have gone the other way but the drive is the thing. God forbid you should smoke and end up impaneled on a jury with a reformed smoker, or drinker or holy-roller or whatever.
The need to commit and believe runs deep and hard, it's two sides of the same coin and the object of the belief is secondary to the need to hold a belief.
At least that's how it seems to me a non-believer.
I'm sure others have gone the other way but the drive is the thing. God forbid you should smoke and end up impaneled on a jury with a reformed smoker, or drinker or holy-roller or whatever.
The need to commit and believe runs deep and hard, it's two sides of the same coin and the object of the belief is secondary to the need to hold a belief.
At least that's how it seems to me a non-believer.