# Religious mode and scientific mode

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**Created:** [April 17, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-mode-and-scientific-mode/1029345 "2026-04-17T23:55:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-mode-and-scientific-mode/1029345/2 "2026-04-12T21:44:33Z")

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> [@They are trying it again- Ten Commandments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/194):
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> > [@They are trying it again- Ten Commandments](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-are-trying-it-again-ten-commandments/1003134/194):
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> > I think “religiosity” is like musicality, a fundamental trait of human beings that some people have a lot of, and some have almost none of.
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> I think it’s even more complicated than that: I think it’s even possible to have the trait, but still to think that any particular expression of it is, in the scientific mode, hogwash.

I think i mentioned my friend who is a Lubuvitcher (a weird Orthodox strain of Judaism). He was a convert to that sect, he grew up a somewhat ordinary conservative Jew. He had a close relative who converted to Catholicism and became a nun, and another close relative who became a militant atheist.

So i think i agree with your judgement. And i think his family tended towards a very high degree of religiosity.

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