Having seen this pattern before in my own family history, I forced my children to start studying religious history and comparative religion at a very early age. One has since gone atheist (but Dawkins style, so not too intolerant) and another’s got something going on that looks like Deism.
Meanwhile my niece, raised without religion by two PhDs, has gone full bore Catholic…
I don’t know if the human impulse to spirituality is a calling, engendered externally, or if it is an emergent property of our minds or bodies, coming from within, but it exists in most people. I think you and I will agree that it’s better to recognize, acknowledge and deal with differing religious beliefs than to make any doomed effort to suppress them all.
