[orionblamblam]

> NOTHING CAN GIVE THEM A RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND if their parents did NOT

Yes. Exactly. That's why children of atheists and agnostics NEVER convert. [/sarcasm]

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

Sounds like a Hell of a God.

[Chris Talk]

True, children of the non-religious, who lacked a religious upbringing...often CAN and DO convert, feeling deprived and wronged because of what their parents denied them...

And they thus Can be and ARE saved, but they still do not have a religious background, it can never be made up.

Just as if you were starved and malnourished as a small child or as a child generally, you can be given a good diet now as an adult but you will be forever stunted by not having had what was needed WHEN it was needed.