My life, reflected in the NY Times

[wrenb]

There are 2 articles in the New York Times this morning that reflect my life and experience. The first is about Americans changing their religious identities. Apparently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life just released a study showing that about a quarter of all Americans have changed their religious affiliation as adults (this includes choosing to be unaffiliated).
The second article says that kids are increasingly choosing to not get their driver's licenses at the first possible moment. Like me. A serious late-bloomer. My friend Michelle said on Friday that I'm obviously right on schedule based on my "developmental delays" (very tongue in cheek); I had a bat mitzvah in 2004 and got my license 3 years later.

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[zathrus.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that Pew Forum study would have included me or not.... Raised in a mainstream Protestant church, chose agnosticism as a young teenager, chose a rather more conservative, "born-again" type Christianity at 20. Would they count me once, twice, or not at all? Not that it really matters, but all these studies that try to put people into neat little categories always make me wonder about the border cases.

Newt