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[[Image:800px-Crop Book of Isaiah 2006-06-06.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The [[Bible]] teaches, "Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6 NASB). ]]
[[Image:800px-Crop Book of Isaiah 2006-06-06.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The [[Bible]] teaches, "Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6 NASB). ]]
''See also:'' [[Religiosity and the growing use of vouchers and homeschooling]]
Parental guidance and religious/non-religious instruction have a very large effect on a person adopting and retaining a particular religion/worldview.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref><ref name="sbts1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.sbts.edu/resources/files/2010/02/sbjt_014_win97_rainer.pdf|author=Thom Rainer|publisher=Southern Baptist Theological Seminary|title=The Great Commission to Reach a New Generation|work=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology|date=December 19, 1997}}</ref><ref>[http://www.calvarytruth.org/awana Awana Clubs (religious clubs) in evangelical Christianity and religious retention rates]</ref>
Parental guidance and religious/non-religious instruction have a very large effect on a person adopting and retaining a particular religion/worldview.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref><ref name="sbts1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.sbts.edu/resources/files/2010/02/sbjt_014_win97_rainer.pdf|author=Thom Rainer|publisher=Southern Baptist Theological Seminary|title=The Great Commission to Reach a New Generation|work=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology|date=December 19, 1997}}</ref><ref>[http://www.calvarytruth.org/awana Awana Clubs (religious clubs) in evangelical Christianity and religious retention rates]</ref>
A 1995-6 study commissioned by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary found that 71% of Christians in the United States converted before the age of 14.<ref name="sbts1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.sbts.edu/resources/files/2010/02/sbjt_014_win97_rainer.pdf|author=Thom Rainer|publisher=[[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]]|title=The Great Commission to Reach a New Generation|work=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology|date=December 19, 1997}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref>
A 1995-6 study commissioned by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary found that 71% of Christians in the United States converted before the age of 14.<ref name="sbts1997">{{cite web|url=http://www.sbts.edu/resources/files/2010/02/sbjt_014_win97_rainer.pdf|author=Thom Rainer|publisher=[[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]]|title=The Great Commission to Reach a New Generation|work=Southern Baptist Journal of Theology|date=December 19, 1997}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref>
The religious/political/demography scholar [[Eric Kaufmann]] pointed out that the majority of people adopt their religious faith due to parental guidance and that the fertility rate of religious conservatives combined with the sub-replacement of fertility of the [[atheism|atheists]]/agnostics/nonreligious will cause the [[desecularization]] of the [[Western World]] in the 21st century (see also: [[Global atheism|Decline of global atheism]] and [[Secular Europe|Desecularization of secular Europe]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century - Academic paper by Eric Kaufmann]</ref>
The religious/political/demography scholar [[Eric Kaufmann]] pointed out that the majority of people adopt their religious faith due to parental guidance and that the fertility rate of religious conservatives combined with the sub-replacement of fertility of the [[atheism|atheists]]/agnostics/nonreligious will cause the [[desecularization]] of the [[Western World]] in the 21st century (see also: [[Global atheism|Decline of global atheism]] and [[Secular Europe|Desecularization of secular Europe]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vCDeKPRSo Eric Kaufmann - Religion, Demography and Politics in the 21st Century]</ref><ref>[http://www.sneps.net/RD/uploads/1-Shall%20the%20Religious%20Inherit%20the%20Earth.pdf Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century - Academic paper by Eric Kaufmann]</ref>
== Religion and atheism in academia ==
== Religion and atheism in academia ==