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I was just giving you a hard time, haha. The humor lies with the fact that people taking up or laying down religious beliefs are each really complex situations. Your poll gives two possibilities for why this happens, with the added premise that, in Catholicism, apostasy tends to correlate with greater anti-religious zealotry than for other religious traditions. If you care to read what follows, I'll give you a serious answer:

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Well, it seems like you are asking two questions. First, why are people likelier to leave the Catholic belief system than others? Second, if one leaves the Catholic belief system, why are they likelier to be more zealously anti-religious?

The first thing we should do when setting out to answer questions like these is to establish whether or not we've identified something real. Is the trend you've noticed something that's actually occurring? We might want to see some evidence that justifies your belief that, yes, this is happening. I wouldn't be a stickler about this if what you were saying seemed obviously true. For example, if you made some connection between vile politicians and Jews, I'd probably not have blinked. But I personally haven't noticed that anti-religious zealotry has any obviously stronger linkage with Catholicism than it does with Judaism, Islam, or Protestantism. I personally know a handful of Jews my age who are (strong) atheists, but who had religious parents or grandparents. Why should I think ex-Catholics are more strongly anti-religious? Furthermore, what's your sample population? If you are gathering these observations anecdotally, then perhaps you live in a predominantly Catholic part of the world. That would mean it could be some influence like 'college attendance' that's really the culprit for anti-religious zealotry, but you happened to observe it in a population of college students that were simply likelier to be Catholic based on geography.

The next thing is to lay out some hypotheses, which you've done. However, given how complex things like religious thinking, religious commitment, and changes in religious commitment can be, it seems exceedingly unlikely that one or two hypotheses are going to help you create a useful survey - in fact, it seems like your survey is just begging the question. Rather than exploring what the data really are, you're loading it to support a conclusion you've already reached.

The two hypotheses you've provided amount to:

(1) Catholicism is intentionally churning out anti-religious zealots, cannibalizing their own Catholic population in order to poison the religious well for all.

(2) Catholicism is wrong and stupid.

Is it possible not to construe these options as biased?

How about these other hypotheses:

(3) There is no effect of Catholicism; I don't perceive any variability in anti-religious zealotry between ex-Catholics or ex-members of other religions.

(4) Catholic education has been underfunded and under-researched, resulting in a failure to adapt to aggregate changes in cultural needs for religious instruction.

(5) The overall impacts of commitment to Catholicism on one's life are greater than in other religious traditions, requiring a more comprehensive lifetime sacrifice (of time, energy, resources, devotion, etc.), so that people who react negatively to the faith tend to hold greater resentment toward religion than other faiths, whose members may not have perceived themselves to have wagered as much of their lives on false premises.

These are just a few ideas. There's no need to insert them in your survey. I don't think surveys are fit to answer the questions you're trying to answer.

I am...the Powderman.

Hi Name.

1. No. Mass was in latin. Couldn't understand a word. Wanted to be up the bush chasing frogs. Used to ogle the Mitchell girls. Blonde hair...phwoar!

2. I used to meet up with me mates sometimes but I didn't make any friends through the religious activities.

3. Yeah a few were. Lot of people attended mass. I can still remember the part where the Priest lifted the chalice and muttered some incantation and I knew the end was about 15 mins away! Talk about child abuse!

Thanks for the opp to talk 'bout myself.

I agree somewhat that there is some molestation issues in the catholic church. Having said that compared to judaism or islam is it not as prevalent(to my knowledge at least).

Any group that acquires some societal power will have bad actors that get inducted into it that use it for their own nefarious purposes. In this case the molestation. Now, if the church made a example with massive repercussions of the priests who abuse children that would be commendable. But sadly it typically just gets sweep under the rug, denied or worse they move the priest in question to a different area so as to allow the cycle of abuse to occur in other areas(which make it worse obviously).

I don't have enough info to comment on this tim guy.

I probably spelled it wrong but jews who hide among Catholics.

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