Nope! I'm not sure I know of anyone who's brought their child into religion that way. I don't think my hope that people would wait till adulthood to introduce their children to religion is likely to ever come to fruition.

I think that, though, is one of the great dangers of religion. People are very rarely able to reach adulthood without being shoehorned into the religious practices of their parents. When you're told at a young age that non-believers in Christ are doomed to eternities in hellfire, it can alter your entire life's course.

I understand that sometimes people try to convert their children or others in order to prevent them from divine torture, but another one of the great dangers of religion is that it doesn't matter whether or not a belief is rooted in reality. That the story of Adam and Eve is a genetic, geographic impossibility doesn't matter in the face of faith. I think it's something like 70% of Muslims in Turkey who believe that suicide bombing is a justified practice, not because of truth, but because it's how they've been taught. Blind faith is a dangerous thing and I firmly believe the world would be better off without it.

I don't think the belief in a hell reserved for non-Christians is one that should get the pass in society it's so often given. It's a deeply unscientific idea and I don't think just because someone has faith that it's a real place is a valid reason to impose that on impressionable young people. Its existence is no more verifiable than Santa Claus.

Nice to hear your thoughts here, too! I hope I don't offend at all with any of what I've said here.