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My views is that maybe 5-10% of converts are sincere, about 90% are LARPING, but much of the growth is births. There’s just too much talk about the trappings to be realistic. I’ve more of less come around to believing in high church Protestant Christianity as the genuine belief, but I don’t look for things like aesthetics of the building or service so much as genuine belief and that the general idea actually makes sense.
There are not enough natal rad trads for this belief to be true.
It's entirely possible that post-covid growth is mostly births. But rad trads being common enough to take note of is a recent phenomenon. Birth rates are high by western standards but, despite the elder's desires, are not Amish or sub saharan africa tier. Mathematically there were a lot of converts in the 2010s and an enormous spike around covid, and lots of these people are very religious functionally normie but hardline religious right types who have never heard of HBD(once again, the online tradcaths are probably mostly larpers but your average rad trad does not know about them and finds stereotypes for racism or love or Hitler to be confusing. These people don't seem to ever actually go to church and it's fair to refer to these as separate groups of people with some overlap. Normie rad trads don't censor the internet beyond porn blockers the way orthodox Jews often do but most of their online media is spoonfed to them- similar to the general population. Most of my coreligionists are aware that there is antisemitism associated with their faith and think it's overblown but literally do not know about the association with extremely online far right wingers and think that anyone who worries about 'traditional Catholic extremists' or whatever is a James Martin SJ type worried about being demographically replaced within the Catholic church).
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