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10 Post author: gwern 17 September 2011 11:59PM

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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.