Paithan’s Reviews > Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations > Status Update

Many of the atheists in this book have some serious misconceptions about what it means to be religious. They think it means just giving up rational thought or science. As if religion and science are opposed to each other, or you cannot come to God through rational thought.

Closeness and warmth between parentd and children more often results in the passing down of religious traditions.

An authoritarian father or a dismissing mother can turn children off of religion even with weekly church attendance and catechisis.

Kids with a close relationship with their parents tend to adopt the views of those parents.