lunchbox comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lunchbox 26 December 2009 11:43:04AM 56 points [-]

Another reason converts are more zealous than people who grew up with a religion is that conversion is a voluntary act, whereas being born into a religious family is not. Converting to a religion late in life is a radical move, one that generally requires a certain amount of zeal and motivation to begin with, so converts are pre-selected to be zealous.