Claim 12bf2f48Checked 09 Jul 2026
TrueOn the truth scale
“Belief can fluctuate during your life.”
Interpreted asidiom
“Belief can wax and wane during your life.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The statement is broadly accurate. Research on religiosity over the life course finds that belief and religious commitment are not fixed: one study identified stable, increasing, decreasing, and curvilinear trajectories, and Pew Research Center reports that religious attachments can peak, decline, and later rise again across adulthood. So the idea that belief can "wax and wane" during a person’s life is supported by evidence. Sources: Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Neal Krause, and David Morgan, "Religious Trajectories and Transitions Over the Life Course" (journals.sagepub.com); Pew Research Center, "Religious observance by age and country" (pewresearch.org); Pew Research Center, "Religious Landscape Study" (alpha.pewresearch.org).
From article
Well… I did get confirmed when I was 13 – that was a voluntary thing – but I think by the time I was 18 I was pretty much a non-believer.
I think – funny, isn’t it? – that belief is one of those things that can wax and wane during your life. I have thought a bit more about God since the [plane crash in 2010].4On 6 May 2010, he was a passenger in a two-seater aircraft that was towing a Ukip banner. He and the pilot were badly injured when it crashed in a field. A bit more. A bit more.
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