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Elessar · 26-30, M
You mean, before one knows he's going to face (certain) death soon? I'd say that's because it's a very intensely emotional moment, where you know you're pretty much out of any hope and your primal fears and instincts kick in, making you believe and attach to any source of hope, be it fictional or real. That's not lucid thinking, that's panic induced thinking.
Most people who rejected sticking to a religion throughout their life still grew up with one, they're usually the survivors of an indoctrination process that takes place since their childhood. For instance, in my country, you're taught Christian notions ever since the age of three (3), and attend religious ceremonies/places basically since always. One of the first (or at least, most remarkable) things you're taught is that if you basically don't follow religion principles more or less strictly, your soul (= conscious self even after physical death) will get stuck forever (= literally an infinite amount of time) in an agonizing place, known as Hell. Now, of course inducing children to believe such things, in a life phase during which they pretty much assume anything taught by an adult is not only real but doubtlessly right, will result in the effects described above.
Most people who rejected sticking to a religion throughout their life still grew up with one, they're usually the survivors of an indoctrination process that takes place since their childhood. For instance, in my country, you're taught Christian notions ever since the age of three (3), and attend religious ceremonies/places basically since always. One of the first (or at least, most remarkable) things you're taught is that if you basically don't follow religion principles more or less strictly, your soul (= conscious self even after physical death) will get stuck forever (= literally an infinite amount of time) in an agonizing place, known as Hell. Now, of course inducing children to believe such things, in a life phase during which they pretty much assume anything taught by an adult is not only real but doubtlessly right, will result in the effects described above.
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