In appreciation of @zhukeepa's willingness to discuss spirituality on LessWrong, I will share some stories of my own.

I grew up as a Christian in the USA and took it seriously.

Upon taking a World History class in my freshman year at a secular high school (quite liberal, quite prestigious), I learned that there were a number of major religions, and many of them seemed to contain a lot of overlap. It became clear to me, suddenly, that religions were man-made. None of them seemed to have a real claim to a universal truth.

I started unraveling my religious orientation and would become an atheist, by the end of high school. I would later go to Caltech to study neuroscience.

I converted to the religion of science and secular humanism, over the old traditions.

I was not able to clearly see that "secular scientific [...]

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