As a child he was an example of the sins of the fathers being visited upon the
children. We permit parents to inculcate their minor children into almost any
faith that is out there. Sometimes the children will be hived off in some awful
fundamentalist school, where they'll be isolated from the real world.
Is there any wonder that, once many such young people reach their late teens,
they turn their backs on the ignorance and extremism of their parent's faith?
They have been subjected to a form of child abuse, and they need to free
themselves from their family's religious foolishness.
Nor should it be surprising that a percentage of these people turn back to
religion at some point down the road.
The great majority of folks lack the moral courage to accept their mortality.
This is not a condemnation of them. With numerous faiths, sects, and
cults telling them that they have an immortal soul, and can spend eternity
in a heavenly paradise, why wouldn't people buy into such promises?
Having faith helps billions of people get to sleep every night.
It's only a minority of us, who can say, "But all religious faith is imaginary!"
Do what works for *you*, even though you sometimes suspect that it's not
credible. You need peace of mind - and for most, that involves trusting in
some sort of immortality, even though *in fact* we all enter into a sleep
from which we never awaken after our deaths.