In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus

[Mister Agenda]

So if the kids have been raised to be indoctrinated, the indoctrination has been far from complete. They've been learning things from other sources as well.

Mine certainly was. I was raised as a Southern Baptist until I was eight. When we moved overseas to Iran, there were no Baptist churches, so my parents farmed out my sister and myself to church-going neighbors who attended any sort of vaguely Christian service, including Catholic Mass and Mormon services. So I got a look at some other denominations of Christianity.

I also had friends in my school who were Islamic and Sikh.

It didn't take long for me to figure out that while they be all correct, they could perhaps be all wrong -- including my own Baptist faith. That's when I started getting scared, and thinking a lot about it. I wasn't comfortable admitting my atheism, even to myself, until I was about fourteen, two years after we'd returned stateside.

Aside from what that scrub @John 6IX Breezy has asserted, through is slipshod English comprehension coupled with his dishonest representation of what is written. I don't believe that children are automatons who cannot think for themselves. My point, which that dolt was unable to pick up, was and is that influences imparted in one's formative years are much harder to change later.

Of course, he doesn't like nuance, so goes for misrepresentation instead.

My father was United Pentacostal, my mother Assembly of God, my step-mother Catholic, and my step-father Methodist. The mixed messages didn't exactly cement my faith.