My pet theory is that people who exercise enough control over others/their environment get "bored" with it and want to feel like there's something out there big

My pet theory is that people who exercise enough control over others/their environment get "bored" with it and want to feel like there's something out there bigger than themselves that they don't have dominion over. Alternately, once you've had your fun with the more-complicated aspects of human technological advancement, you arrive at the gordian knot of religion-- the one construct nobody has managed to truly reverse-engineer. (I think this is what attracts the schizophrenics-- they believe they've succeeded where everyone else fails.) To your point, Catholicism is very binary (pun intended) in terms of ideology. Little wonder it attracts the computer-minded.