No, really, Pete, let's have the evidence, chapter and verse. I promise to give it all the consideration it deserves (you may care to look up "evidence" in a good dictionary first, however).

"but most of us will accept a refusal[preferably polite!]and not buldoze our faith on people."

The big religions make a big thing of bulldozing the faith on children. If they didn't actually do this there would *be* no big religions at all. Yeah, I took an opportunist quantum leap there, but I couldn't resist pointing out that religion is not always very nice, keep-it-to-myself stuff.