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Religiously Involved with as a child? You're probably not an Atheist.

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  Using data obtained through the 2021 Childhood Experience and Religious Affiliation Survey (n=3079), respondents were separated into affiliation-groups. It was found that those who identified as atheists were less likely to have had parents who prayed, meditated, went to a place of worship with or who said grace before meals. One may suggest that this is due to present atheists being raised atheist; however out of the 870 who identified as atheists at the time of the survey only  12.87%  were raised atheists.  Graphs available below.  Table of Context I.) Prayer II.) Meditated III.) Place of Worship IV.) Saying Grace V.) Religious Involvement Averages  I.) Prayer Present Catholics and Protestants were close to twice as likely to have been prayed  with their parents "a few times or more"* during childhood.  Affiliation at time of survey // Median Parental Prayer "a few times or more" Atheist // 24.37  Agnostic // 32.46  Protestant // 51.56  Catholic // 48.29 *: As