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Baraka_Guru has hit the mark. The concept of teaching children is not to condemn them to a life of misery on the road to death, but rather to teach that life brings with it a moral obligation to improve the lot of our human brethren. This isn't a religious concept, it's a biological imperative, bred into our genes by God/nature/random chance (take your pick). Humans are social animals, and our survival as a species required that we pool our resources.
As our societies grew more complex, we added structure and social convention. What religion did was try to express that in a symbolic way, codifying it so that a successful society could pass on the values, traditions, learning, and technologies that enabled them to thrive. Those that didn't do this, didn't last long.
On that basis, whether the non-religious and anti-religious amongst want to believe it or not, humans are BIOLOGICALLY PROGRAMMED to be religious at some level. There really isn't much question about that. The big question about it is whether or not a divinity is responsible.
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