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Douthat has the weird obsessive enthusiasm of the convert in his politics as well as in his faith. I find it both fascinating and creepy that when he converted to Catholicism (after having previously converted to Pentacostalism, leaping in at the deep end), he took his whole family with him, like it was a kind of Disneyland for the immortal soul.

Cradle Catholics are different. Some of them have God, some don't, some of them have left the Church, some haven't, but their relationship to the Church simply IS. Converts, by contrast, are driven into the Church by, well, God only knows what: and sometimes it is a sincere matter of faith--but sometimes, it's something right weird.

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No neckbeard!

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