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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of us follow the religion we are born into and try to pick good teachings which resonate with us. However, following religions with billions of followers, you don’t have any say in other followers doing good or bad things. This makes it quite difficult for children (specially ones living in places where they are minority) to deal with the stigma which comes with it. People hating you for no fault of your own, how do you teach children to do their own thing, not be sensitive of what anyone says and not have to feel the responsibility to defend your religion? I think Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Baptists and Scientologist and many others can relate to it at varying degree so would like to hear their perspectives. A new parent ask me this question and I didn’t have a good answer. It seems[b] most children become atheists because most adults doesn’t have enough knowledge to give satisfactory answers.[[/b]/quote]

Maybe it's not the parents' fault that they cannot give their children  satisfactory answers about religion.  Maybe there are no satisfactory answers.  People become atheists on their own.  Some people never accept religion, even as children.  Others change their minds about religion as adults, unrelated to anything about their parents.

And I think your original premise may not be accurate -- it may not be true that "most of us follow the religion we are born into and try to pick good teachings which resonate with us."  Lots of people change religions when they become adults, or leave religion entirely.[/quote]

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