Religious prejudices

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In fact, that's another thing I see a lot - parents who don't really believe themselves but think they'd be bad parents (or that others will call them bad parents) if they don't indoctrinate their children into something they themselves would have otherwise moved away from.

That's kind of what my parents were. They didn't force it on me, but they didn't encourage atheism either. We were easter and christmas catholics as far as I can remember. Later on they went to church more regularly because they found friends there. But if I didn't want to go it was fine with them. We never had the talk one way or the other.

Come to think of it, religion never was a real issue in my family. My grandfather was a jew, but his favorite dish was roast pork. To my knowledge he didn't visit a single synagogue in his lifetime. His burial may have been a premiere.