I tend to agree with your remarks here.


But consider;
We were lucky enough to be born in the USA. A Republic, and a freeman's parades by comparison to so many places in the world.


I would say you are on the mark here Wes. But one must ask,.. how does being born into an established religion invalidate it?
And from the other side, despite differences, so many of the worlds religions contain an all powerful, world creating diety(s) of some sort. I would argue, despite reasonable numbers of consensus, that really doesn't validate God either.