What we are picking up on "from the off" in that case is that religion is silly and without basis.

I don't think we automatically follow what our parents think - I know I certainly didn't, and my kids have found their own way which doesn't echo my feelings at all. Doubts, options, opinions, possibilities, impossibilities are all part of our wider cultural socialisation which comes from outside the home. For me it mostly came from Sun Ra. Space is the Place!