Er, that is precisely the process. Without that, you'd have very few Catholics indeed. The people who propagate religion ARE fools, but they have ways of ensnaring people. As for this method making them think, it does that all all right. About the severe disapproval of their parents, their church and God if they don't stick to the rules, possibly even hellfire. And they do have to stick to those rules. After all, they were signed up shortly after birth by a man in a frock dousing them with holy water, and sent to a faith school which spent years reinforcing them. .