""Religion, however, is not something you're born with, like skin color or ethnicity. It's something you choose, like joining the KKK or becoming a poet.""

That's a seriously flawed statement Rig.

Religion is very often not an informed, adult, choice.

Frequently it is more like a brainwashing, in the sense that it is indoctrinated into the young before they develop the critical faculties that enable them to question inconsistencies.

You might state that with advancing years, and education, they should make the choice to turn away from it, but others could equally apply that rule-of-thumb response to Christianity, or Atheism, with equal justification.

Don T.