I find it really sad that....

In today's society, a naive person would say that a parent teaching their child their religion is the equivalent to "forcing religion down their throats because the children are "naive" and will believe anything." First of all, this is so insulting and inaccurate it's almost laughable. But it's not because apparently people believe this. The reason these days the majority of parents teach kids their faith is because, unlike back then where the church and government were one, the kids have no other way to expose themselves to religion. The media and school is not permitted to spread religion to prevent conflict (which is understandable) and so now the only way kids can get religion is by their own parents. It's not forcing, it's teaching. You cannot brainwash people because by the time they're old they can develop their own opinion (much like myself) When a person grows up with no religion, they don't automatically say "hmm I don't have a religion, let me look for one. dododododo~" People who share no faith don't think to find one because they weren't raised by parents nor society who explained the importance of it or even what each faith is about other than "they believe in God" or such. Not to mention it's hypocritical to say that because atheism is also a religion in itself. "Belief that God does not exist" and parents who say it's not real to their kids is just the same as "brainwashing." What I'm saying is, the majority of religious parents teach their kids because its the only true opportunity for faith. It is true people should decide religion by choice, but not exposing them to religion would leave them without a choice. I know plenty of people who's parents were religious but did not expose their kids and as a result the kids were non-religious and confused about life because they did not get an explanation as to how religion works. These were neither atheists nor religious people. (and God knows the internet is bias as hell these days) The point of this is to explain that parents should explain and have the right to explain their kid their faith just like an atheist has a right to say God does not exist.

This was not meant to bash atheists who grew up religious or religious people who grew up to be an atheist. This was to show the right to expose children so they show interest by the time they're older.

I understand some people follow religion blindly, but that is hardly the case because they tend to develop their own opinion by the time they are 14 and up.