It's pretty clear to me how this happens, I'm one of those people who became unaffiliated. I was raised in a religious household. I got fed a lot of objectively

It's pretty clear to me how this happens, I'm one of those people who became unaffiliated. I was raised in a religious household. I got fed a lot of objectively weird things from my parents' religion: - The pope is the antichrist - The Catholic Church, according to biblical prophecy, will force everyone to attend church on Sunday - If you comply with this and don't become a martyr, you will not be saved These are the Seventh-Day Adventists' beliefs, and this is a pretty mainstream protestant religion in the US. They run a whole huge health care system and they have millions of members and vast amounts of real estate, yet their actual beliefs are objectively totally nuts to me. This is how a lot of the religions sound, when you take a step back they're pure crazy talk wrapped up in some common sense "don't be a jerk" teachings. If you go back a few hundred years, you'd just be murdered by your neighbors if you came out and said their beliefs are crazy. In a lot of the world today you'll get this treatment. The people who are able to escape this stuff are enjoying a luxury that is rare in the history of the world.