All Conversions Are Coerced?

By the time she was 14, the writer Susan Jacoby realized that there is no God, and ever after, she has been working to share that insight. Her new book studies the phenomenon of conversion, since she is upset that people still find ways to accept â??goofy religious myths.â? Sometimes she writes as if it is a personal insult to her for people to have any religion. She resents the fact that a nun of the Dominican order, singing a tribute to the orderâ??s founder, St. Dominic, did so with a â??mind-numbing refrain that still pounds in my cortex as â??Dominiqua-niqua-niqua.â??â??â? She writes to prove that the so-called religious experience of conversion often has a secular explanation â?? then she offers a broad range to choose from.