Indeed, on your second point, the linked study[1] that found that "More than two-thirds of those who identified as atheist before the experience no longer ident

Indeed, on your second point, the linked study[1] that found that "More than two-thirds of those who identified as atheist before the experience no longer identified as atheist afterwards." didn't control for that at all. It makes me a little sad to see an article in Scientific American not doing due diligence. [1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214377 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...