Skeptical standards can take years to apply to one’s own faith.

Evidence

Another unnamed skeptic, who is still involved in the skeptical organization GWUP, even reports that only after years of activity in the skeptic movement he was ready to apply skeptical standards also to his own faith, in this case the Christian faith. … Decisive for his turning away from faith had been personal experiences and the insight into the simple impossibility of what he believed in the context of the laws of nature, but these discussions had certainly also contributed to it. The disputes dragged on for several years, but the actual transformation finally took place within a few months, and precisely in a phase of such fierce controversies. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 206

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the psychology of motivated reasoning and the difficulty of applying scrutiny to in-group beliefs, linking to Milgrom’s work on how trust and reputation regimes lag within in-groups.