Dawkins argument against this practice is peerless. A child is too ignorant and inexperienced to make such decisions, yet you see bible camps and Islamist child armies (see memritv.org, its unreal, kids no more than 6 years marching for Allah). Parents committed to pushing their religion on their child.
Children are entirely dependant on their parents. No child in his/her right mind would flatly reject Islam in an Islamic country, and even in countries with there is more freedom, children still want to please their parents and know what gets them the goodies, and what gets them the stick.
If humans had a real choice, religion would die. There would be no programming from birth and no religious identity that mirrors nationality or racial indentity. If your given a religion at birth, you are essentially given a nationality, afterwhich, stubborn ignorant loyalty keeps the fiction seered in the brain.
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