On Non-belief

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Regardless what the parents say, the child can still place faith in them. Now, if the child investigates and realizes that a stove does not turn into a child-eating monster, the rationality wins, and the faith is no longer total. This doesn't make the parents completely untrustable, but a child may think so for a time. After maturing, the child probably understands that the parents were lying, but they really didn't want him to touch the stove. Even further down the line, he will laugh at himself for believing it in the first place. Then he'll probably tell his kids the same story at a similar age.

I quite like this analogy of yours... but let me put my own twist...
The parents/elders tell you a wonderful story about a god to make you behave in a certain way, or else you may have some nasty after-death.
You then investigate and realize that there's no such thing as god, the rationality wins.
This doesn't make your parents/elders completely untrustworthy, but you may think it for a while...
After maturing, you understand why they told you that stuff about god, they just wanted you to behave properly when they weren't around.
Even further down the line, you grow out of it and laugh at yourself for believing such nonsense...

Sadly, some people don't grow out of it...

Haha, I expected this as i wrote it. You're assuming that rationality says God doesn't exist. =p