Well, I guess Jews and Wiccans would be as reluctant to get baptised in order to get a job as atheists are—possibly more so, insofar as I can easily imagine the latter thinking ‘if a lie is what you want, a lie is what you’ll get’ (there was a comment somewhere on LW to that effect, but I can’t find it).
Well, atheism is correlated with IQ and (ISTM) Openness to Experience, which are both somewhere around 50% inheritable.
Look at what I found by googling for
atheism twin studies!Yeah, well, Judaism is correlated with IQ as well :-D and I bet any non-mainstream religious beliefs will be correlated with Openness to Experience.
Well, I guess Jews and Wiccans would be as reluctant to get baptised in order to get a job as atheists are—possibly more so, insofar as I can easily imagine the latter thinking ‘if a lie is what you want, a lie is what you’ll get’ (there was a comment somewhere on LW to that effect, but I can’t find it).
Such a requirement would bother (to put it mildly) me much more as a Jew than it would as an atheist, FWIW.
Yes, on re-reading my comment it sounds like I was trying to win an award for the Understatement of the Year.