On the prevalence and "normalcy" of indoctrinating children in religion

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3. One word of warning

Studies have shown one very strong common trait among members of hard-core cults - the type where members surrender all their worldly possessions to the group. The trait is that they were never exposed to religion as a child. Then, in their late teens, as they are trying to understand who they are and where they fit in the cosmos, they discover a mystical philosophy that has an answer to every question and welcomes them into a loving family.
I was lucky I guess. I had Catholicism crammed down by throat by the nuns and had given up religion for good by the time I was 16.