""if you happen to be a product of Catholic parents it might be worth wondering whether you would still have been a Catholic if your parents had been, say, Jews""

A good point. I was born into a Christian family. Regardless of my logical reasoning, (I am open to and an sympathetic to many perspectives on religious issues), Christianity remains an embedded part of my life -though I am not feel it necessary to ally with any organized Christian religion, as the Christian messages alone are important to me.

Good or bad, it seems that religious life is much like the pligh of a salmon, programed by the stream it is hatched and raised in to return to the stream to complete it's life processes.