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Originally Posted by Jennifer
One possibility -- the tertiary Ni of ISTP would be skeptical if not cynical about religion in general ("What's 'the system' trying to get me to believe?"), and this is what I've seen with the few ISTPs here on MBTIc (indifference or aggression towards religious belief... as if the system is mere exploitative).
If the INTP is brought up in Christian faith, this gets incorporated into Si. And the pattern-seeking Ne will often identify with the themes of the faith (and thus buy into it), even if some specific doctrine seems sketchy in places and ends up being rejected because it's illogical.
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Great MBTI explanation
I believe it is a conjuction of two traits - the Ss tend to test as "concrete" along with "Open ended", this results in "show it, god damn it" (or not, I guess). These subtraits are more direct to creating a closed mind to fancy-pancy theories of possibilities, yet still open to showing them, after which they'll likely change.
Since most religions are really crappy at showing tangible proof of god without some pretty heavy abstractions - not hands on stuff, theories on theories - STPs just sit at the crossroads of "can't show me" and "don't tell me what to do/think". I know that is where I sit, anyway. I can have conversations about religion but it always comes down to "Your people suck, hence your religion sucks"... along with "Yah, that doesn't prove that God does exist... and your religion still sucks". The evidence of formal religion tends to be rather negative overall from a strictly "preach -> do"... since the good stuff gets filtered out by "don't tell me what to do".