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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 18 September 2011 01:30:49AM *  2 points [-]

and, if religious, were more likely to construct their own religious belief system.

This is the part of the results I found most surprising and most interesting. I'm HFA, and during the brief phase of my life where I was religious, I constructed a weird belief system with parts borrowed from all over the place. I had no idea then or since that that was a common enough thing that it would be treated as a category in a study (Edited for accuracy).

Comment author: BillyOblivion 18 September 2011 09:52:35AM 2 points [-]

You still don't. One study doesn't prove anything.

There's a huge body of fairly neurotypical young adults (and older) that get lumped into "neo-pagan" who are basically recreating their own myths and belief systems. A rather well known one is ESR (Eric Raymond). He's consciously done it.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 18 September 2011 03:30:47PM 1 point [-]

I edited my comment to be more well-supported.

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