Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast.

My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

Antonia Dodge. And Tony and I come from very religious backgrounds, both of us.

And we have a lot of people in our audience that are very religious and we come in contact with people and I'm sure you do too as a listener to this podcast of people in your own life or maybe you're deeply religious and we had the question come up.

What types of personalities do religions tend to attract?

Are there some that aren't compatible with religion? Do certain types have a tendency to leave religions over others?

What's the relationship between personality type

and religious expression or joining religious movements.

Right.

And we've actually been avoiding this topic for a while.

We've been avoiding it because we don't feel that we are the ultimate authority on which paradigm you should believe.

We don't feel like we're the people with answers. We feel like we're the people who ask the questions. And we love maps and models because it, you know, maps and models equip people to be able to make their own choices on these kinds of topics. So we have our personal beliefs or lack of

belief however you want to look at it and we didn't really want to start a

conversation that might sound like we think any one religion or paradigm is any better

than any other religion or paradigm. That said, we do have personal feelings on the topic, for sure. We wanted to be cautious around this,

cautious not because we, not only because we fear indicating a sense of judgment to

other people, also so that we represent our positions

accurately so that we're not indicating judgment where we feel no judgment.

I actually I actually feel very friendly towards religion as a general role and what I thought we could do in order to introduce this idea that will probably be spending a little bit more time and in the, don't be surprised if you see other podcasts

on the concept of religion,

is we could start out by talking about something

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