[FoxInSocks]

Without this [religious] motivation, why would they particularly CARE how the kids turned out?

Love for their children is one motivation that comes immediately to mind.

[Chris Talk]

Love their children, and then bring them up alone and afraid in a world they never made, without any religious orientation to console them?

True, the children can always throw over a religious tradition if they wish, once they are grown.

But NOTHING CAN GIVE THEM A RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND if their parents did NOT, not even if as adults they turn out to WANT one! One MUST give the children a religious training in order to preserve for them the CHOICE as adults, whether to be religious or not.

"If you forget ME, I will forget your Children, saith the Lord." --book of Hosea