We have enough examples of this wandering around unsupervised!

[Minimalist]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/18/re...m-fiction/

Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction

“Children with exposure to religion — via church attendance, parochial schooling, or both — judged [characters in religious stories] to be real,” the authors wrote. “By contrast, children with no such exposure judged them to be pretend,” just as they had the characters in fairy tales. But children with exposure to religion judged many characters in fantastical, but not explicitly religious stories, to also be real — the equivalent of being incapable of differentiating between Mark Twain’s character Tom Sawyer and an account of George Washington’s life.

This conclusion contradicts previous studies in which children were said to be “born believers,” i.e. that they possessed “a natural credulity toward extraordinary beings with superhuman powers. Indeed, secular children responded to religious stories in much the same way as they responded to fantastical stories — they judged the protagonist to be pretend.”

[vorlon13]

I bet there crooks on the internet around the world thrilled to hear that.

[ignoramus]

Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction

And when these children grow up, they have difficulty distinguishing evolution from god.

I wonder if there's a connection there somewhere?
Nah, prolly just my imagination.... carry on...

[Minimalist]

Some children grow out of it.

Some are like the shitheads who sprinkle jesus dust around here.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Americans do hate to think and they will do almost anything to avoid it. It's much easier just to accept what you're told than it is to think about it and reach your own conclusions.