re: Not every or all _______ are bad

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That is false. People are individuals. Every person in a free country is autonomous, and in control of their own mind and religion. Unless, of course, you view people anthropologically.

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Humanity is far less independent and "free" than we fancy ourselves. We are still largely driven by biological impulses, just on a much grander scale than other species are.

We are biologically programmed to believe what our parents tell us, because that was crucial for survival for the first 200,000 years or so of our existence. A child believes what their parent says about God for the same reason they believed what they told them about the lion in the brush thousands of years ago.

This is why the vast majority of Christian converts and reverts were raised n a home that was at least marginally Christian if only socially. The rates of "switching" between faith is still incredibly low, even in today's global society. It was virtually nonexistent prior to the 20th century.