What would be the percentage of the theists on the world if there was no religious education at childhood?

Answer 1

I only speak for myself but it was going to church and also reading about the history of religion in school that made me eventually realise I wasn't happy with the way religion works.
I don't see God's hand in religion. In fact I lean more and more towards the opposite view that religion is the opposite of God's intentions.

So I don't think religious education is the key to either more or less religious people.

I don't preach this fact because I feel that is the main problem with religion...humans relaying their interpretation of God's intent.

By the way you are confused about atheism being the opposite of religion. It isn't.

Belief in God is like a belief in democracy whilst belief in religion is like belief in a particular party. You don't have to be a aligned with a party to know democracy and you don't have to be religious to know God.

Answer 2

Religious education as opposed to what other kind of education? How many evolutionists do you think there would be in the world if they didn't teach that theory in school? Institutions such as a school give selected ideas more merit than they are sometimes worth. We start to teach secularism in schools then wonder why we questions like this in yahoo. Kids are impressionable and are the most vulnerable to the lies of evil men. That's why it's important to regulate what children are taught in schools. If they are taught to analyze and think of everything thing in a secular fashion they will forever close their minds to Truth.

Answer 3

Athiests are generally people who are angry with God, perhaps because of their parents or teachers as children. I would say even if people had no religious education as children, most would discover it at a later age.
The belief of God or at least some higher power has been found in every civilization ever discovered. Aztecs, Greeks, Romans, African tribes, and American Indians to name a few all knew that there was some sort of higher power and some sort of spiritual realm. It becomes apparent to all cultures that there is a God.

Answer 4

A large percentage of people at my church weren't raised in religious homes. I wasn't. The idea that all believers were raised in religious households is a falsehood.

Answer 5

It would probably relate to the number of home-schooled children by religious parents.

Answer 6

Humans have a weakness that causes them (us) to invent "Gods" to explain the unknown. Even without instruction, humans would eventually attribute "Gods" to anything we could not understand or explain otherwise.

Answer 7

I would have to believe it would be smaller, Indoctrination would be harder when you can use reason and logic as an argument, as an educated person.

Answer 8

Your implied argument is illogical. If that's all there was to religion, how would it have ever started? The answer: It never would have... Therefore, there must be (and is) something more to it.