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Originally Posted by zing
I think by proportion children of Islamic families are more likely to be "forced" into religion than those born into christian familes who a large proportion of do not see the insides of a church at all
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I think you are completely wrong in this regard Zing....
People who don't attend any church/chapel/temple will not by defination be religious, thus how can they imprint on their children their beliefs regarding any diety you choose to name....
Obversely, any family that regularly attends church/chapel/temple etc ofc take their children to their place of worship with them. This is exactly what happened to me.... When I started in primary school, my parents enrolled me in Sunday School for an hour before church every sunday. I was also enrolled in the Robins, then the Anchor Boys, then the Jnr Boys Bge and eventually the Snr BB. Ofc I could have stopped going to church, BB and bible class, but by the age of 14 I considered myself a confirmed christian. So I didn't stop attending church until I was in my late teens, and had seen enough of the world for my faith to be challenged, and over the years to fall away and for me to finally proclaim myself an Anti-Theist and Anti-Deist.
By and large, religion is perpetuated via the family and its involvement in their church. To say otherwise would be to fool yourself....